of federal funds across regions of the country is the outcome of bargaining game in which the President acts as the …

One feature of legislative bargaining in naturally occurring settings is that the distribution of seats or voting … weights often does not accurately reflect bargaining power. Game-theoretic predictions about payoffs and coalition formation …

agreements. Informational differences provide an appealing explanation for bargaining inefficiencies. This chapter provides an … overview of the theoretical and empirical literature on bargaining with incomplete information.The chapter begins with an … analysis of bargaining within a mechanism design framework. A modern development is provided of the classic result that, given …

approaches to coalition formation, one based on cooperative game theory, the other based on noncooperative bargaining. Three …

of bargaining, where offers are made, with claim stages, where one side can commit to impose surrender on the other … both wrong. Bargaining proposals that are rejected initially might eventually be accepted after several periods of … strengths of contenders at attack and defense. Changes in these parameters display non-monotonic effects. -- bargaining …

effect of contracts on bargaining threatpoints. We compare situations in which an initial contract is renegotiated to … strategically equivalent bargaining situations in which no ex ante contract was written. The ex ante contract causes sellers to ask … for markups that are 45 percent lower than in strategically equivalent bargaining situations without an initial contract …

Despite extensive use of bargaining models in economics and despite Becker's insistence on the importance of altruism … in families, the theoretical literature on bargaining ignores altruism and assumes that everyone is an egoist. This paper … shows that incorporating altruism into cooperative bargaining models shrinks the set potential cooperative bargaining …