We study whether the Coase conjecture holds in a model of bargaining during conflict due to Powell and Fearon. Two … negotiations are frictionless. Thus, the Coase conjecture does not hold. We study how the minimum length of conflict depends on the …

war because it changes the relative bargaining position between states. We find that shifts in military power are not the …In the context of international bargaining, standard models predict that a shift in military power can cause preventive … only cause of war under commitment problems and that commitment problems per se are not necessarily a cause of war even if …

The rise of a new power may lead the dominant power to seek a preventive war. We study this scenario in an experimental … two-stage bargaining game. In each stage, the rising power makes a bargaining offer and the declining power must choose …

This paper argues that the notion of focal points is important in understanding bargaining processes. Recent literature … confines a discussion of the usefulness of the notion to coordination problems and when bargaining experiments result in … equal split division and it re-interprets recent experimental evidence in bargaining games. Experimental economists should …

In an experiment on a subjective claims problem we compare three unanimity bargaining procedures - the Demand, the …