negotiation should be determined by how the direct conflict resulting from disagreement would be resolved. The explicit modeling … of the disagreement game directly leads to the observation that the outcome of conflict is a function of the stakes. Thus …

We study how the possibility of a conflict between natives and immigrants shapes income redistribution in democracies …. Conflict erupts when immigrants are given less than what they could obtain by resorting to confrontation. That in turn can make …

This paper studies bargaining and conflict under incomplete information, provides an overview and a critical account of … sequential bargaining that take confrontation as final. Conflict and inefficiencies are to be expected in these models whenever … parties have optimistic prospects on the outcome of the all-out conflict. After examining the causes and reasons for this …

determined by how the direct conflict resulting from disagreement would be resolved. Our basic building block is the disagreement …

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

exists a non-monotonic relationship between the level of underlying rivalry and the level of social conflict. …

This paper explores the role of conflict as a bargaining tool. It first presents a simple bargaining model with one …-sided incomplete information. Parties can choose the scope of the confrontation they may want to engage in: A limited conflict that … only introduces delay, or an absolute conflict that terminates the game. The outcomes of both types of confrontation are …