bargaining

If the insurance market becomes much more fragmented (i.e., competitive) then providers will gain bargaining power relative to insurers and costs will go up.

Matthew Yglesias » Will More Insurance Competition Make Things Better? 2010

I think it would be reasonable to allow collusion by insurers in bargaining for services offered by monopolies or extremely narrow competition.

Matthew Yglesias » Will More Insurance Competition Make Things Better? 2010

For instance, Schelling showed that an agent may strengthen its position in bargaining by overtly worsening its own options, and that the capacity to retaliate can be more useful than the ability to resist attack.

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1969-2006 2010

"Both sides will have a chance to evaluate them and when we begin bargaining, presumably sometime in the early part of 2011, we'll have a season of that under our belt."

MLB Players' Union Open To Expanding Playoffs In Two Years AP 2010

"We're negotiating and that was one of our negotiating points," he told the AP, "but collective bargaining is a negotiating process, and that was not something that Ted was authorized to say and he will be dealt with for that lapse in judgment."

Ted Leonsis fined $100,000 for comments on NBA salary cap Michael Lee 2010

In light of the way in which the high court framed the issue when it granted certiorari, I am inclined to think the court will conclude that, since Arave had a fair trial, the fact that his attorney may have been ineffective during plea bargaining is irrelevant.

Supreme Court 2009

Once again, the President comes out on the defense, bargaining from a position of weakness.

Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 25, 2010 2010

You seem to believe that collective bargaining is always a good thing.

Matthew Yglesias » Economists for an Employee Free Choice Act 2009

Collective bargaining is PART of the free market, dufus.

Think Progress » Corker And Alexander Place Hold On Aviation Funding Bill To Prevent FedEx Drivers From Unionizing 2010

"Both sides will have a chance to evaluate them and when we begin bargaining, presumably sometime in the early part of 2011, we'll have a season of that under our belt."

MLB Players' Union Open To Expanding Playoffs In Two Years AP 2010