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 …

games. In the spirit of the Nash Bargaining Solution, our concept is founded on the predicted outcomes of simultaneous, two … exists and is unique. It belongs to the bargaining set and to the core whenever the latter is not empty. In fact, when the … selection of the bargaining set. Finally, we discuss how the R solution changes important conclusions of several well known …

The objective of this work is to study the effects of centralized, sectorial and decentralized bargaining patterns on …

matching protocol, but does not interfere with the bargaining, eliminates all delay. Even though this efficient centralized …

We analyze a stochastic versions of the Rubinstein bargaining model with outside options available to both the proposer …

In this paper we examine the link between ethnic and religious polariza- tion and conflict using interpersonal …- ization index. We measure conflict by means on an index of social unrest, as well as by the standard conflict onset or … fractionalization index. We also obtain that both ethnic and religious polarization are significant in explaining conflict. The results …

decentralized pairwise bargaining. Cartels are coalitions of buyers or sellers that limit market participation and compensate …