Bargaining rights appear in the constitutions of a handful of states. In most, the constitutional text is sparse. It usually includes only a single sentence, often declaring nothing more than that the right to bargain exists. Courts in some states, like New York, have interpreted those brief...

Contractual renegotiation is an emerging and significant theme in the context of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) due to its high incidence and potential impact on the sustainability of partnership models. This study presents a systematic review using a qualitative meta-synthesis method to...

This paper considers the recently introduced New Zealand Fair Pay Agreement (FPA) sectoral bargaining framework and offers a preliminary series of ideas and proposals setting out how an FPA model for bargaining sectoral standards could work in Canada. It is intended as the beginning of a more...

I analyze a dynamic model of concurrent bargaining in which multiple long-lived prospective buyers compete to trade with a long-lived seller over two periods. The paper investigates how offer confidentiality and buyer participation affect bargaining dynamics within this framework. When buyers’...

I derive a refinement of sequential equilibria of a noncooperative bargaining game when one player has incomplete information about the time preference of the other player. I show that if the types for this latter player are drawn from some totally ordered and finite lattice, Grossman &...

We model mortgage refinancing as a bargaining game involving the borrowing household, the incumbent lender, and an outside bank. In equilibrium, the borrower's ability to refinance depends both on the competitiveness of the local banking market and on the cost of switching banks. We find...

The article explores how citizens may bargain for distribution in strong authoritarian regimes. Combining in-depth case study and the survey experiment approach, it finds that regimes’ pursuit of certain political priorities may enable unlawful bargaining, an increasingly popular form of...