This paper presents the results of an experiment performed to test the properties of an innovative bargaining mechanism … are within a prescribed range. The observed individual behavior, based on 40 rounds of bargaining, is shown to be … adopting aggressive bargaining positions, which implies that the mechanism is not able to promote agreements and generate …

advantage in the conflict or that the joint production process exhibits increasing returns. Nor is there any presumption that …, the formation of alliances tends to reduce the severity of the conflict over the contestable resource. Furthermore …, despite the internal conflict that arises among the winning alliance’s members over the distribution of their joint product …

dependence upon primary commodity exports and a large diaspora substantially increase the risk of conflict. Inconsistent with the … grievance theory, greater ethnic and religious diversity reduce the risk of conflict. The results are robust to correction for …

This paper considers a partial equilibrium model of conflict where two asymmetric, rational and risk-neutral opponents … conflict in order to appropriate a positive fraction of a stake. An institutional constraint is modelled through an exogenously … conflicting agents are willing to commit themselves to ease the conflict joining an institutional setting they do not ‘disarm …

This paper shows that altruism may be beneficial in bargaining when there is competition for bargaining partners. In a …

lack structural information, which contrasts with common notions of fairness or "manners" in ultimatum bargaining (Camerer …

We examine a simple bargaining setting, where heterogeneous buyers and sellers are repeatedly matched with each other …