The paper studies a generic bilateral trade model with relationship-specific investments. Only the seller invests, and subsequent trade becomes inefficient if his investments are too low. We show that the seller may defect strategically under a fixed-price contract even though he attains any...

The application of Nash bargaining solution to profit division in negotiation between opencast lignite mine and power plant has been discussed. Different proposals of status quo point usage and ways of its determination for profit sharing both in strategic and tactical/operational negotiation...

Different structures of lignite mines and power stations, which have appeared on the Polish market as a result of its transformation and the privatisation, were discussed. The attention is focused on the fact that the practice is overtaking the theory because there is lack of models of...

For methods of the profit division in the bilateral monopoly of the mine and the power station sug-gested in the first part of this paper the formulae for lignite price and shares in the joint profit of the mine and the power station are calculated. The proposed profit division contain: the...

The newest findings in analysis of bilateral monopoly (BM) of lignite opencast mine & power plant have been discussed. The determinism of optimal solution not only in quantity of lignite (the size and shape of the ultimate pit) but also in its price has been depicted. It has been proposed to...

Lignite price negotiation between opencast mine and power plant as a two-stage, two-person, cooperative, non-zero sum game. Based on the simple model of the lignite deposit the methodology of finding the optimal solution for bilateral monopoly (BM) of lignite mine and power plant is shown taking...

In this paper, we study individual incentives to report preferences truthfully for the special case when individuals have dichotomous preferences on the set of alternatives and preferences are aggregated in form of scoring rules. In particular, we show that (a) the Borda Count coincides with...

Polish Abstract: W Polsce z roku na rok przybywa aktywnych organizacji pozarządowych. Wraz ze wzrostem ich liczby wzrasta złożoność i ilość problemów związanych z ich kadrą. Coraz większego znaczenia nabierają problemy związane z rekrutacją wolontariuszy, wiązaniem ich z...

Polish Abstract: W Polsce działa ponad 120 tysięcy organizacji pozarządowych. Niestety, Trzeci Zektor nie odgrywa znaczącej roli w polityce publicznej, gospodarce, kulturze i społeczeństwie. Przyczyn jest tutaj wiele, ale jedną z najważniejszych są problemy jego działaczy. Są one...

Polish Abstract: 20 maja 2016 roku weszła w życie nowelizacja ustawy Prawo o stowarzyszeniach. Wprowadza ona istotne reformy w funkcjonowaniu stowarzyszeń w Polsce. Największe zmiany odnoszą się do stowarzyszeń zwykłych o niepełnej (ułomnej, ustawowej) osobowości prawnej. Zmiany są...