Strikes, just as other types of conflict, used to be difficult to explain from an economic perspective. Initially, it …

We consider ultimatum bargaining over the provision of a public good. Offer-maker and responder can delegate their …

We analyse the two-dimensional Nash bargaining solution (NBS) deploying a standard labour market negotiations model … (McDonald and Solow, 1981). We show that the two-dimensional bargaining problem can be decomposed into two one … implications for actual negotiations, as it allows for the decomposition of a multi-dimensional bargaining problem into simpler …

We construct game theoretic foundations for bargaining in the shadow of a trial. Plaintiff and defendant both have …

-contractible up-front investments to improve their bargaining position and gain advantage for possible future conflict. Bargaining is … player winning in Conflict is higher than the share received under Nash bargaining. We thus provide a rationale for conflict … efficient ex post, but we show that a player may prefer Conflict ex ante if there are sufficient asymmetries in strength. There …

costlessly enforced. The costs of insecurity and the resultant conflict are, however, real and often economically significant. In … this paper, we examine how international trade regimes affect the costs of conflict and, in turn, how the desirability of … international trade is affected by these costs. We consider both domestic and international conflict. Trade openness reduces the …

I revisit the Rubinstein (1982) model for the classic problem of price haggling and show that bargaining can become a … of fixed bargaining costs). Augmenting the protocol with unilateral exit options for responding bargainers generally …

based on neighborly recognition of borders could deliver a desired low-conflict situation if accompanied by an optional …