bargaining. We develop a theoretical model of pre-arbitration bargaining that is able to identify the impact of the institutional …Arbitration, as an alternative to litigation for contract disputes, reduces costs and time. While it has frequently … been thought of as a substitute to pretrial bargaining and litigation, in fact, parties may be able to reach a settlement …

issue by modelling the automated negotiation process as a two-person bargaining game under incomplete information. A first …

We consider an alternating offer bargaining model in which the players may agree to call in an arbitrator in case of … this result both for theories of arbitration and for the interpretation of cooperative bargainining solutions. …

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 …

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 …

Third-party conflict management, particularly legal dispute resolution (arbitration and adjudication) and mediation …, can help improve the willingness of disputants to make asymmetric concessions by ameliorating commitment problems and … Issue Correlates of War data. To get traction on the mechanisms at work, we distinguish between challenger concessions and …

We briefly review two basic models of settlement bargaining based on concepts from information economics and game …

I examine the determinants of conflict and settlement by embedding probabilistic contests in a bargaining framework … frontiers. After examining the incentives for settlement, I demonstrate how different division rules and bargaining norms have …