Bargaining over the economic surplus is often open ended, especially if competition is weak.

Grand Bargaining with Iran

Often, bargaining will break down.

Nor can we overlook the banal bargaining of European leaders, the quarrels over budgets, and the rise of national egoisms whenever elections loom.

Some studies showed that the bargaining position of women within the household was strengthened by access to credit and control over income and assets.

He might receive offers, and perhaps the bargaining has already started.

It is a paradox that the language used in bargaining over this resolution was the same language that buffeted the Council before, in another African question, and everyone knows that full well.

And so, after six months of bargaining, a historic deal was struck.

At the same time, America s bargaining position in world politics should be enhanced.

In principle, workers can seek remedies by joining a union and bargaining collectively.

It also provides the women with greater bargaining power in their own households.

Bargaining is highly centralized and often the government participates to coordinate fiscal policy.

Complex ethnic bargaining had made Jonathan Yar Adua s running mate in the fraudulent 2007 election.

Developing country delegations in multilateral trade negations have become active in forming bargaining coalitions.

abbassbraham It's clear that general Aziz was bargaining on Senoussi to increase his selling price.

Moreover, sometimes they say that they do not want to give away a bargaining chip prematurely.

They were no good as bargaining chips, because there was no one with whom to bargain.

Thus, an inflexible contract can protect workers when the preponderance of bargaining power is with firms.

The situation is markedly different if parties with clearly unequal bargaining power contract with one another.

It is clear that in this context, the contracting parties are not of equal bargaining power.

In the manufacturing industry, this reputation as a TNC is equally important in a bargaining context.

And the way they bargain is to point on a number line that goes from zero to six dollars, and they're bargaining over how much the uninformed player gets, and the informed player's going to get the rest.

They can improve their bargaining position, both for input purchases and for the sale of their crops.

The IRGC may have wanted some bargaining chips to help spring of its members captured in Iraq.

If one main player slides back into economic turmoil, nationalism will reduce the scope for pragmatic bargaining.

Pakistan is party to ILO Conventions 87 and 98 on Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining respectively.

Now, after a lengthy and difficult period of reflection and bargaining, those efforts may be in jeopardy again.

Recent appointments to head the IMF have all been pushed through after high level bargaining among European governments.

Outcomes will be mediated more by actors relative bargaining power than by pre existing implicit or explicit contracts.

The Panel recommends that African nations put their bargaining power behind multilateral trade liberalization at Doha and beyond.

Unions have historically been especially important since they engage in decentralized wage bargaining that tie wages to firms productivity.

Holding onto territory as a bargaining chip makes less sense if there is no one with whom to bargain.

This type of regional coordination might also enhance the bargaining power of the countries involved, strengthening their global voice.

State employees would be granted the right to engage in collective bargaining, but would have no right to strike.

In certain situations, weakness and the threat that a partner will collapse can be a source of bargaining power.

Thus, firms have little pricing power, owing to excess capacity, while workers bargaining power is low, owing to high unemployment.

While the GATS request offer process naturally builds upon bargaining and exchange processes, flexibility should be maintained for developing countries.

Consultations with ILO were proceeding, and the Government would comply with all ILO Conventions on the right to collective bargaining.

And, in any coming showdown, we must hope that all leaders will refuse to use innocent people s lives as bargaining chips.

European utilities bargaining power vis à vis Russian gas giant Gazprom has risen considerably despite long term oil indexed supply contracts.

The brinkmanship and bargaining that this approach encourages make it impossible to develop and present pan European visions to the public.

Louisbourg was an important bargaining chip in the peace negotiations to end the war, since it represented a major British success.

Where national wage bargaining systems are the obstacle, the European Commission should say so, and countries should be required to change them.

As surviving firms gain in size, Chinese businesses may exercise more bargaining power vis à vis the Chinese government and foreign firms.

But it faces an uncertain political future. If a power struggle emerges, the large Bushehr reactor could be used as a bargaining chip.