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 …

bargaining efficiency. An experiment was conducted in which subjects were first screened using a dictator game, with the … bargaining efficiency across pairing types. Information about types is crucial for these differences and also strongly affects … the relative bargaining success of the two types and the hypothetical optimal bargaining strategy. …

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

This note tries to clarify some remaining issues in the debate on the effect of income shocks on civil conflict …. Section 1 discusses the discrepant findings on the effect of rainfall shocks on civil conflict in Miguel and Satyanath (2010 … (rainfall-driven) income shocks on civil conflict and contrasts the conclusions with those of Miguel, Satyanath, and Sergenti …

This paper analyzes the relationship between ethnic fractionalization, polarization, and conflict. In recent years many … explain this nexus is the effect of ethnic heterogeneity on rent-seeking activities and the increase in potential conflict … channel is not through an increase in potential ethnic conflict. We discuss the appropriateness of indices of polarization to …

confidential transactions. Bargaining can be considered to occur over a network that summarizes the structure of linkages among … people. We conduct an alternating-offer bargaining experiment using separate simple networks, which are then joined during … bargaining environments. Participants appear to grasp the essential characteristics of the networks and we observe a rather …

This paper analyzes collective bargaining using Spanish firm level data. Central to the analysis are the joint …

We lay out a model of wage bargaining with two leading features: bargaining is ex post to relevant investments and … there is individual bargaining in firms without a Union. We compare individual ex post bargaining to coordinated ex post … bargaining and we analyze the effects on wage formation. As opposed to ex ante bargaining models, the costs of destroying the …