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The Strategic Choice of Contractual Policies
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This paper is devoted at analyzing the strategic choice of intra-firm contractual policies in an oligopoly framework. It derives conditions under which a cooperative bargaining process between firms’ owners and employees characterizes a dominant strategy equilibrium of the game. It then extends the model to consider a different specification of the two parties’ outside options and the implications of the equilibrium allocation on social welfare and collusion possibilities.