Self-selecting random or cumulative pay? A bargaining experiment

Decentralized or Collective Bargaining in a Strategy Experiment

CIRANO Le CIRANO est un organisme sans but lucratif constitué en vertu de la Loi des compagnies du Québec. Le financement de son infrastructure et de ses activités de recherche provient des cotisations de ses organisations-membres, d=une subvention d=infrastructure du ministère de la Recherche, de la Science et de la Technologie, de même que des subventions et mandats obtenus par ses équipes de...

Pay Attention When Selecting Features

In this paper, we propose a new approach for landmark selection for simultaneous robot localization and mapping based on visual sensors (VSLAM): a biologically motivated attention system finds regions of interest with high information content, and at these regions, Harris corners are detected. This combines the advantages of the ROIs (reducing complexity, enabling good redetactability of region...

"Unions and Pay Equity Bargaining in Canada"

Provincial government pay equity policies require the negotiation of pay equity in unionized workplaces. The methodology is complex and unions have to be knowledgeable and committed to rectifying discriminatory wages. According to the literature, Canadian unions have shown varied levels of effectiveness regarding their pursuit of women’s equality, and this article explores how well these unions...

A Newspaper Experiment on Ultimatum Bargaining

Commitment and (In)Efficiency: a Bargaining Experiment∗

We conduct an experimental investigation of decentralized bargaining over the terms of trade in matching markets. We study if/when efficient matches will be reached and what terms of trade will be agreed. Multiple theories guide our analysis and we test their predictions against the outcomes of our experiments. We find that inefficiencies are extensive and they are driven by the endogenous evol...