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post. We show that this is achieved by bilateral negotiations but not by auctions. Negotiations strictly outperforms … if the buyer’s bargaining position is sufficiently strong. Moreover, we show that negotiations provide stronger … use of negotiations as a procurement mechanism in private industry. …
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focusing on carbon pricing in the international negotiations and offers a way forward in that process. …
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of the EU commitment to Human Rights on its trade negotiations with … the EU of human rights commitments within their trade negotiations are analysed through four variables (rationale … negotiations demonstrate that the EU has been playing a highly normative role in such negotiations with Serbia using actively the …
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According to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, global collective action is needed to stabilize “greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous [our emphasis] anthropogenic interference with the climate system.” The Framework Convention thus...
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Recent studies in general are positive regarding the effectiveness of US counterinsurgency programs in Iraq. The right mix of coercion, ethnic strategy, and public goods provision, it is argued, makes Iraqis less likely to rebel against the US army and the Iraqi government, thus reducing...
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Nations differ in their tolerance for costs of fighting and in their willingness to make concessions. We use a bargaining model of war to analyze these sensitivities. Incentives created by heightened sensitivity to costs often—but not always—contradict those created by heightened...
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At the beginning of the 21st century's second decade, China became not only a major emerging economy, one of the BRICS, but also assumed an increasingly pivotal role in the world economy. As long since demonstrated by Hirschman (1945), wealth and economic strength also mean power and the...
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In this article we identify four distinct types of union responses to workplace restructuring on the basis of different combinations of ideological orientations and actions in collective bargaining. Four union branches are described, each making one of these different types of response when...
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negotiations and may benefit from bloc formation and intra-bloc migration. Policies are examined in a model where a bloc’s size and … accession fees; (iv) intra-bloc migration and North-South trade are complements under negotiations for increased market access …
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coordination. The focus is on two varieties of negotiated self-coordination under conditions where actual negotiations are embedded …
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