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-competitive theories of bargaining and efficiency wages. …
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matching protocol, but does not interfere with the bargaining, eliminates all delay. Even though this efficient centralized …
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We study price competition between firms over public list or posted prices when a fraction of consumers (termed 'bargainers') can subsequently receive discounts with some probability.  Such stochastic discounts are a feature of markets in which some consumers bargain explicitly; of markets in...
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prices and increasingprofits. Welfare falls because of the uncertainty in the bargaining process, which generates …
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a third benefit from commitment which arises from low host country bargaining power when negotiating incentive levels … with foreign investors. If bargaining power is low, incentives agreed under bargaining will be generous to the investor and … host country welfare will be lower than otherwise. It is shown that this consequence of low bargaining power may be avoided …
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Ultimatum games have been extensively used in experimental studies. By studying the consequences that restrictions shared by ultimatum games have in subject`s behaviour, this paper argues that some results are falsified by design constraints. This paper also presets a taxonomy of certification,...
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This paper introduces a non-parametric binary classification tree approach to inferring unobserved strategies from the observed actions of economic agents. The strategies are in the form of possibly nested if-then statements. We apply our approach to experimental data from the repeated ultimatum...
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List prices are not completely credible as take it or leave it prices: buyers are able to seek reductions by bargaining …
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those who don`t bargain and the bargained prices for those who were already bargaining rise: sellers have a greater … Authority exhortations to bargain can therefore be misplaced. We also consider the implications for optimal seller bargaining. …
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This paper analyses the implications of bargaining between buyers and sellers on the competitive outcome in a … homogeneous good industry. Bargaining creates a competitive equilibrium in which some inefficient sellers coexist with efficient … price dispersion but transaction price uniformity. The bargaining models is not observationally equivalent to Bertrand …
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