in iran’s system of tripartite collective bargaining, does the wage-policy maker consistently react optimally to the best move made by the exchange rate-policy maker (nash-rule) or only to the state of economy (non-nash rule)?. this paper not only investigates the nature of the political game (nash rule against non-nash rule) but also estimates some structural parameters by using 2sls method an...

Over the past 40 years, an irrelevance proposition has been embraced implicitly in law-andeconomics scholarship: bargaining power should affect only price and not non-price terms of a contract. This proposition is based on unstated assumptions that contracting is affected by neither transaction costs nor asymmetrical information and that the parties are risk neutral. In contrast, practitioners ...

Observational studies suggest that women’s income benefits children’s health and nutritional status, as well as education, more than men’s income, apparently because women are more likely to shift marginal resources to their children. These studies have influenced policies such as conditional cash transfers, which typically target women. However, previous studies have been unable to control for...

Family savings is crucial to long-term wellbeing for all members in a household, particularly Chinese context where costs of living increasingly shift from government individuals. Savings are typically examined as balance financial behaviors and spending preferences; however, this study highlights how family also function relationship status. Drawing on intra-household bargaining models, we ana...

Crowdsourcing has emerged as new form of digital work organization. This novel socio-technical arrangement changes the organization of work as well as its general nature. In this paper, we focus on the crowdworkers – a perspective that has been largely neglected by crowdsourcing research. We report results from crowdworker-interviews on two different platforms. Our research shows that quality s...

One of the recurring topics in retailing is the power shift in the supply channel toward the retailers. Several studies focus on the reasons for the power shift rather than highlighting the consequences for the retailer-manufacturer relationship. Despite a considerable amount of literature about gender, the intersection of power and gender is seldom challenged. In this paper, we combine both re...