This paper studies bargaining and conflict under incomplete information, provides an overview and a critical account of … sequential bargaining that take confrontation as final. Conflict and inefficiencies are to be expected in these models whenever … parties have optimistic prospects on the outcome of the all-out conflict. After examining the causes and reasons for this …

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 …

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

In this study, I examine the alternating‐offer bilateral bargaining model with private correlated values. The … limits and show that it is efficient, but the surplus split generally differs from the Nash bargaining split. I then … construct a double limit that approximates the Nash bargaining split in the ex post surplus, but with a delay. Further, I prove …

We study the alternating-offers bargaining problem of assigning an indivisible and commonly valued object to one of two … veto power over any settlement. There is no depreciation during the bargaining process which involves signalling of private …

bargaining model of price formation with asymmetric information. Under natural assumptions on type distributions, and for any …

agreements. Informational differences provide an appealing explanation for bargaining inefficiencies. This chapter provides an … overview of the theoretical and empirical literature on bargaining with incomplete information.The chapter begins with an … analysis of bargaining within a mechanism design framework. A modern development is provided of the classic result that, given …

We consider ultimatum bargaining over the provision of a public good. Offer-maker and responder can delegate their …

We propose a model of cycles of distrust and conflict. Overlapping generations of agents from two groups sequentially … a sequence of bad actions originated. Assuming that both sides are not extremists, spirals of distrust and conflict get … this mechanism can be useful in interpreting cycles of ethnic conflict and international war, and how it also emerges in …