war because it changes the relative bargaining position between states. We find that shifts in military power are not the … only cause of war under commitment problems and that commitment problems per se are not necessarily a cause of war even if … muss, in zukünftigen Verhandlungen mit einem militärisch stärker werdenden Staat, ein schlechteres Verhandlungsergebnis zu …

The rise of a new power may lead the dominant power to seek a preventive war. We study this scenario in an experimental … preventive wars when the power shift is smaller and when the rising state has the commitment power. Communication and repeated …

negotiations are frictionless. Thus, the Coase conjecture does not hold. We study how the minimum length of conflict depends on the …We study whether the Coase conjecture holds in a model of bargaining during conflict due to Powell and Fearon. Two … players, A and B, contest a divisible resource. At any time during the conflict, they can make a binding agreement to share …

nothing if it loses. We study a model of war with such an asymmetric payoff structure, and private information about military … win the war unless its expected military technology is considerably worse. Our model may thus explain why defending …

income. We explain this process of democratization as a rational way for incumbent elites to wage war effectively on other … nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …

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 …

nodes in a communication network. However, communication through the network is noisy, which removes common knowledge about …

ways of extending the standard static economic model of conflict to study patterns of conflict dynamics. It turns out that …. In particular, we are unable to study dynamic military conflict as a series of “battles” that are resolved individually … subject to this limitation. Plausible patterns of conflict dynamics emerge, which we can link to both historical conflict and …

This paper considers evolutionarily stable decisions about whether to initiate violent conflict rather than accepting a … of peaceful resource allocations that are rejected in favor of violent conflict, compared to the Nash equilibrium …