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 … strengths of contenders at attack and defense. Changes in these parameters display non-monotonic effects. -- bargaining …

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 …

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. -- Bargaining ; commitment problems ; shifts in power …

We study the effect of the transparency of outside options in bilateral bargaining. A seller posts prices to screen a …

This paper analyzes reputational bargaining between two parties who can strategically send an ultimatum to resolve the … conflict by law. Each party is either a justified player who is inflexible about demand and resolves the conflict by law …

I consider two-person bargaining problems in which mechanism is selected at the almost ex ante stage---when there is …

This paper studies independence of higher claims and independence of irrelevant claims on the domain of bargaining … higher than the payoffs. Interestingly, in conjunction with standard axioms from bargaining theory, these properties …

To analyze players' strategic alliance behavior, we introduce a new noncooperative coalitional bargaining model, in … transferable utility game, or a veto player in a simple game, in preventing efficient outcomes and we show that delay in bargaining … generically occurs. In an application to legislative bargaining with vote buying, if a veto player and a non-veto player coexist …