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

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 …

Strikes, just as other types of conflict, used to be difficult to explain from an economic perspective. Initially, it …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …