We present a novel approach to N-person bargaining, based on the idea that the agreement reached in a negotiation is … determined by how the direct conflict resulting from disagreement would be resolved. Our basic building block is the disagreement … individual rationality we reach a unique solution: the agreement in the shadow of conflict, ASC. This agreement may be construed …

We present a novel approach to N-person bargaining, based on the idea that the agreement reached in a negotiation is … determined by how the direct conflict resulting from disagreement would be resolved. Our basic building block is the disagreement … bargaining problem, a weak axiom based on individual rationality leads to a unique solution: the agreement in the shadow of …

This article proposes a new measure of civil war. The measure defines violence intensity in casualties per capita … a debate on the right model can help distinguish between competing theories in the conflict literature. This is …

We study how conflict in a contest game is influenced by rival parties being groups and by group members being able to … punish each other. Our main motivation stems from the analysis of socio-political conflict. The relevant theoretical … prediction in our setting is that conflict expenditures are independent of group size and independent of whether punishment is …

In this paper we study a behavioral model of conflict that provides a basis for choosing certain indices of dispersion … as indicators for conflict. We show that the (equilibrium) level of conflict can be expressed as an (approximate) linear …

We analyze a model of conflict with endogenous choice of effort, where subsets of the contenders may force the …

society an explanation for the connection between enfranchisement and growth: When (1) there exist an economic conflict among …

German war crimes during the occupation between 1941 and 1944. During months of open conflict between German and Greek … affected by German reprisals during World War II: areas where German troops committed massacres and destroyed entire villages … curtailed their purchases of German cars to a greater extent during conflict months than other parts of Greece. We conclude that …