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equilibrium prices, network formation, and hospital exit. We estimate a structural model of insurer-hospital bargaining that …
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importance of individual bargaining in wage determination. We show that simple survey questions accurately elicit firms …' bargaining strategies. Using the elicited strategies for 772 German firms, we document that the majority of firms are willing to … engage in individual wage bargaining. Labor market factors predict firms' strategies better than firm characteristics. Survey …
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In this paper, we assess the recent economics literature on collective bargaining. Despite a declining trend in the … collective bargaining agreements. We describe the substantial institutional variation across a variety of countries, highlighting … (in Europe and North America). We estimate collective bargaining coverage premia, compression, selection, and spillover …
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In this paper we study the complete evolution of a final-offer arbitration system used in New Jersey with data we have systematically collected over the 18-year life of the program. Covering the wages of police officers and firefighters, this system provides virtually a laboratory setting for...
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We study how intermediation and asset prices in over-the-counter markets are affected by illiquidity associated with … search and bargaining. We compute explicitly the prices at which investors trade with each other as well as marketmakers' bid …
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metaphor, cautioning any agricultural region against water sales to urban areas. In this paper I examine the bargaining … Los Angeles land owners. The results suggest gains to both groups. Broader conclusions for bargaining, when the aggregate …
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We develop a dynamic bargaining model in which a leading country endogenously decides whether to sequentially negotiate … free trade agreements with subsets of countries or engage in simultaneous multilateral bargaining with all countries at … once. We show how the structure of coalition externalities shapes the choice between sequential and multilateral bargaining …
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In countries where wages are primarily set by collective bargaining, the effects on unemployment of changes in the …
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While the theoretical literature on non-cooperative legislative bargaining has grown voluminous, there is little … bargaining model: members with proposal power, those sitting on the transportation authorization committee, secure more project …
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Motivated by the structure of WTO negotiations, we analyze a bargaining environment in which negotiations proceed …
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