The evolution of studies of political parties of constitution: The first and second periods show that the evolution of parties indicates that researchers' attitude to political pheno-mena also coincide with the evolution of political realities has been transformed, and the consideration of ideologies in the analysis of the parties have replaced with religious perspectives and anti-authoritarian...

On May 9, 2017, we hosted a seminar to discuss the conditions necessary to implement the SynLBD approach with interested parties, with the goal of providing a straightforward toolkit to implement the same procedure on other data. The proceedings summarize the discussions during the workshop. ∗Funding for the workshop was provided by the National Science Foundation (Grants 1012593; 1131848) and ...

Passenger and freight locomotives in the United States are required to carry event recorders for collecting data that can be used in postaccident investigations. There are, however, shared management, labor and government concerns about maintaining the integrity, confidentiality and non-repudiation properties of the collected data. This paper proposes a cryptographic technique based on secret s...

Standard contract theory predicts that contractual terms between tenants and landlords should reflect the quantity and quality of factor inputs (labor and land), the degree of risk aversion of the parties, and various structural features of the labor market such as alternative wages, turnover rates, and search costs. We examine these theories in the light of data on the terms of contracts, as w...

Since the passage of the National Labor Relations Act in 1935, collective bargaining has been the primary means by which U.S. workers can collectively negotiate terms and conditions of employment with their employer. Currently, more than 100,000 contracts are in effect, covering approximately 9 million workers and their employers in the private sector. (An additional 8 million workers are cover...

This article is a survey on bargaining theory. The focus is the game theoretic approach to bargaining, both on its axiomatic and strategic counterparts. The application of bargaining theory to large markets and its connections with competitive allocations are also discussed. Journal of Economic Literature classification: C7. Bargaining In the simplest definition, we refer to bargaining as a soc...

This article is a survey on bargaining theory. The focus is the game theoretic approach to bargaining, both on its axiomatic and strategic counterparts. The application of bargaining theory to large markets and its connections with competitive allocations are also discussed. Journal of Economic Literature classification: C7. Bargaining In the simplest definition, we refer to bargaining as a soc...