Background Many of public hospitals in Japan have had a deficit for a long time. Japanese local governments have been encouraging public hospitals to use group purchasing of drugs to benefit from the economies of scale, and increase their bargaining power for obtaining discounts in drug purchasing, thus improving their financial situation. In this study, we empirically investigate whether or no...

Bargaining Power is one of the important issues in oil trade negotiations. In this paper two effective factors in bargaining power i.e. patient time to deal and outside options of each player have been considered. The necessary relations for exchange of sources in negotiation have been derived.

in criminal procedure, the best attitude to diversity of crimes and criminals is not yet determined and the juridical systems are also in the process of trial and error. plea bargaining is an organization arised from juridical system of common law and particularly america based on which the prosecutor and the accused discuss the accusation and its outcomes. although plea bargaining is an organi...

bargaining power is one of the important issues in oil trade negotiations. in this paper two effective factors in bargaining power i.e. patient time to deal and outside options of each player have been considered. the necessary relations for exchange of sources in negotiation have been derived.

in this paper, we analyze the effect of lack of capital investment on energy projects using game theory in the guise of cooperative games. we focus on the energy projects in the provincial level as case study during 2010-2011. therefore, we design a theoretical model of the lack of capital investment as a factor influencing the implement of energy projects. in the experimental section, we deter...

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...

To solve the bargaining problems of centralized procurement in the environment of e-commerce, we propose a visible tool named as Bargaining Process Chart to support bargaining process. By mapping any bargaining process into a curve from the point with coordinates (0,1) to the halving line of the first quadrant in Cartesian coordinates, Bargaining Process Chart makes the current and historical b...

The coordination of decentralized multi-site multi-product manufacturing SCs is achieved through Scenario-Based Negotiations (SBNs) based on expected winwin principles in an uncertain competitive environment. Based on the nonsymmetric roles of the different actors, the client (SC leader) is supposed to propose coordination contracts according to its best expected conditions, taking into account...

Global bargaining problems over a finite number of different issues are formalized as cartesian products of classical bargaining problems. For maximin and leximin bargainers we characterize global bargaining solutions that are efficient and satisfy the requirement that bargaining separately or globally leads to equivalent outcomes. Global solutions in this class are constructed from the family ...