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Studies on international mediation have traditionally focused on the effectiveness of international efforts to settle … number of mediation mandates an international actor receives. The hypotheses we derive are subsequently tested in a … multivariate event count model using an original dataset on international mediation from 1950 to 1990. The results obtained from …
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Recent discussions about the evolvement of nanotechnologies criticize that the notion 'risk' is too abstract and an all-inclusive category. Moreover, the concept of risk is not precise enough to describe the potential issues related to the development of nanotechnologies. Instead, experts of...
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We compare three common dispute resolution processes - negotiation, mediation, and arbitration - in the framework of …. Under mediation, the parties communicate with a neutral third party who makes a non-binding recommendation. Under … mediation and arbitration procedures. Both mediators and arbitrators should optimally filter information, but mediators should …
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We study communication in a static Cournot duopoly model under the assumption that the firms have unverifiable private information about their costs. We show that cheap talk between the firms cannot transmit any information. However, if the firms can communicate through a third party,...
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This note reconsiders communication between an informed expert and an uninformed decision maker with a strategic mediator in a discrete Crawford and Sobel (1982) setting. We show that a strategic mediator may improve communication even when he is biased into the same direction as the expert. The...
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Cultural intermediaries actively mediate between production and consumption: they operate at the interfaces between and within firms, and between firms and customers, and reflexively negotiate between their roles as symbolic producers and taste-leading consumers. The article examines the...
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This paper provides an economic foundation for non-binding mediation to stimulate first collective bargaining … agreements, as implemented in British Columbia since 1993. We show that the outcome of first-contract mediation is Pareto … profits under mediation coincide with the Owen values of the corresponding cooperative game with the coalitional structure …
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This note relates the mechanisms that are based on mediated contracts of Rahman and Obara (2010) to the mechanisms of Myerson (1982). It shows that the mechanisms in Myerson (1982) are more general in that they encompass the mechanisms based on mediated contracts. It establishes an equivalence...
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sector. Mediation and lobbying are key functions of ACFTU (Section 5), but growing labour conflicts and, in particular, wage …
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for conflicts, a stand out being the procedure of mediation, a procedure that is an alternative to the court of law. The … institution of mediation can be understood through an exhaustive presentation of the framework law in the field, of the related …
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