Helsinki GSE Discussion Papers

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Helsinki GSE Discussion Papers

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  • Commitment in Sequential Bargaining - An Experiment

    Nadine Chlaß and Topi Miettinen

    Schelling (1956) first clarified how power to reduce one’s freedom of choice might benefit a bargaining party. A commitment to reject proposals, when successful, may force concessions from opponents …

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  • Markets, Contracts, or Firms? A Simple Model of Governance

    Tore Ellingsen and Topi Miettinen

    We build a simple formal model of governance. Investments and control rights over assets and labor are fully contractible, but final production decisions are ex ante uncontractible, and ex post …

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  • Socially responsible lobbying

    Saara Hämäläinen and Sara Yi Zheng

    Lobbyists are nowadays increasingly involved in promoting businesses through societal investment, producing what has been paraphrased as “corporate beauty contests” due to the uncertain winning …

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