protocol or a conflict to appropriate the surplus. In the cooperative negotiations, disagreement corresponds to a pro rata … which conflict will be preferred to negotiated agreements (and vice versa), and we derive welfare implications. Finally, we …

Are natural resources a source of conflict or stability? Empirical studies demonstrate that rents from natural … source of conflict and the rentier state view which emphasizes the role of resource rents in promoting peace and stability … activate more interest groups in a power struggle. We demonstrate that the associated increased cost of conflict may in fact …

We introduce a noncooperative multilateral bargaining model for a network-restricted environment, in which players can … communicate only with their neighbors. Each player strategically chooses the bargaining partners among the neighbors to buy out …

coalition formation in such a setting. Our analysis proceeds by defining on a partition function an extensive form bargaining …

the overlapping case. We propose a cover function bargaining game which allows the formation of overlapping coalitions at …

In "Bargaining to Lose: The Permeability Approach to Post Transition Resource Extraction" [1] Natasha Chichilnisky … state as a decision maker having the public good as an objective, and replaces it by the results of a bargaining game … of copper and gold mines in Mongolia and Zambia, and focuses on a bargaining game between the state and key financial …