setting in which there is no conflict in material interests: a proposer, holding the role of residual claimant, chooses the … harms the proposer. Notwithstanding, maximal claims by proposers are predominant for all game types. This generates conflict … and results in a considerable loss of efficiency. -- Social Preferences ; Conflict ; Experimental Economics ; Bargaining …

matched to play a reduced form bargaining game. We show that this struggle for resources drives a conflict through the … consequences. We show that rational players can contribute to the conflict by aggressively discriminating and that this behavior is … relates to the social conflict literature, which examines the relationship between macro level factors such as unemployment …

by which the allocation of prizes are governed by possibly repeated conflict. Our results contribute to an explanation … why. Compared to a single-stage conflict, such structures can reduce the overall resources that are dissipated among the …

setting in which there is no conflict in material interests: a proposer, holding the role of residual claimant, chooses the … harms the proposer. Notwithstanding, maximal claims by proposers are predominant for all game types. This generates conflict …

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 … their relative size on the profitability of negotiated agreements. -- Bargaining ; Conflict ; Agency Problem …

-contractible up-front investments to improve their bargaining position and gain advantage for possible future conflict. Bargaining is … efficient ex post, but we show that a player may prefer Conflict ex ante if there are sufficient asymmetries in strength. There … are two sources of this finding. First, up-front investments are more dissimilar between players under Conflict, and they …

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 endogenous demand choices, however, the likelihood of conflict is …