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 …

In the context of international bargaining, standard models predict that a shift in military power can cause preventive … war because it changes the relative bargaining position between states. We find that shifts in military power are not the … the relative bargaining position changes substantially. …

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

experimental results suggest: In a simple bargaining game with an exogenous mediation proposal, the likelihood of conflict is … independent of the balance of power. If bargaining involves endogenous demand choices, however, the likelihood of conflict is …We study the role of an imbalance in fighting strengths when players bargain in the shadow of conflict. Our …

of bargaining, where offers are made, with claim stages, where one side can commit to impose surrender on the other … both wrong. Bargaining proposals that are rejected initially might eventually be accepted after several periods of …

Two individuals are involved in a conflict situation in which preferences are ex ante uncertain. While they eventually …

nonunionized firms. However, little research has been devoted to examining the implications of ESOPs for collective bargaining or … involve a strike. We examine these predictions using U.S. bargaining data from 1970 to 1995. The data suggest that ESOPs do … improved bargaining efficiency, we find that the announcement of a union ESOP leads to a 50 percent larger stock market …

solution to an intra-personal bargaining problem among different selves of an individual, where each self represents a … coincide with our bargaining solution, for some pair of preference relations. Second, we provide a revealed …-preference foundation to our bargaining solution and characterize the extent to which these two preference relations can be uniquely …

bargaining models between unions and firms. While the Nash bargaining solution is unaffected by minimum wages below initially … bargained wages, we show that such minimum wages can drive up wages - and be harmful to employment - when bargaining follows the …

Insufficient sleep is commonplace, and understanding how this affects interpersonal conflict holds implications for … stylized bargaining task that models payoff uncertainty at impasse with a final-offer arbitration (FOA) procedure. FOA use in … result that a significantly stronger narcotic effect is estimated for more sleepy bargaining pairs. One implication is that …