This paper provides an economic foundation for non-binding mediation to stimulate first collective bargaining … agreements, as implemented in British Columbia since 1993. We show that the outcome of first-contract mediation is Pareto … profits under mediation coincide with the Owen values of the corresponding cooperative game with the coalitional structure …

We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict … altogether, often after substantial initial conflict. To attain peace, players must first engage in costly signaling by making …

analyze whether and how quickly a conflict-avoidance take-turn strategy can emerge. First, our results show that players learn … to solve the conflict by choosing opposite options at both stages of the game. Second, many adopt a take-turn strategy to … increases the likelihood of conflict resolution even when a single pair member has the right to communicate. …

better the social tension and conflict that underlie some of the pathways linking income disparities and individual health …

. Specialization based on comparative advantage leads to gains from trade. If political conflict leads to a diminution of trade, then … at least a portion of the costs of conflict can be measured by a nation's lost gains from trade. The greater two nations …' gain from trade the more costly is bilateral (dyadic) conflict. This notion forms the basis of Baron de Montesquieu …

Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict has made Colombia home to the world's second largest population of … Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The effect of being directly impacted by conflict on a child's educational accumulation and … productivity. This paper explores the educational accumulation and enrollment gap created by being directly affected by conflict …