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protocol or a conflict to appropriate the surplus. In the cooperative negotiations, disagreement corresponds to a pro rata …
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protocol or a conflict to appropriate the surplus. In the cooperative negotiations, disagreement corresponds to a pro rata …
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I study a situation where two players disagree on the division of a good. In the first of two stages, the players can divide the good peacefully between them by signing a contract. If either or both players reject the contract, they must engage in a costly contest over the good. One of the...
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costless. Therefore non-concession intimidates the opponent into conceding. Unlike in models where negotiations happen in the … shadow of exogenously specified conflicts, the rejected offer determines how conflict is played if negotiations fail. In turn …, how players are expected to play during conflict determines their negotiating positions. In equilibrium, negotiations …
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We present a version of Baliga and Sjöström’s (2012a) conflict games with two asymmetric players. The players contemplate whether to take an active engagement action to compel the leader of a neighboring state (an extremist) to give up his risky weapons. We show that a player with greater...
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We propose an elementary theory of wars fought by fully rational contenders that features three of the main rationalist explanations for armed conflicts: uncertainty, commitment, and indivisibility. Two parties play a Markov game that combines stages of bargaining, where offers are made, with...
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We study the role of an imbalance in fighting strengths when players bargain in the shadow of conflict. Our 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...
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Negotiations frequently end in conflict after one party rejects a final offer. In a large-scale internet experiment, we …
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