resource. If challenger rejects, conflict ensues. During conflict each player could be a tough type for whom fighting is … shadow of exogenously specified conflicts, the rejected offer determines how conflict is played if negotiations fail. In turn …, how players are expected to play during conflict determines their negotiating positions. In equilibrium, negotiations …

We present a version of Baliga and Sjöström’s (2012a) conflict games with two asymmetric players. The players …

In this chapter, we review the recent literature on conflict and appropriation. Allowing for the possibility of … conflict, which amounts to recognizing the possibility that property rights are not perfectly and costlessly enforced … technologies of conflict. A central objective of this research is to identify the effects of conflict on economic outcomes: the …

We construct game theoretic foundations for bargaining in the shadow of a trial. Plaintiff and defendant both have …

We construct game theoretic foundations for bargaining in the shadow of a trial. Plaintiff and defendant both have …

This article introduces a static, within-country, game-theoretic model of litigated conflict over fundamental rights … the extent to which the litigated conflict over fundamental rights in the society is “constitutionalized” is decreased (i …

such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple rent-seeking model of conflict which is …

such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple model of conflict which is driven by …

such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple rent-seeking model of conflict which is …

-contractible up-front investments to improve their bargaining position and gain advantage for possible future conflict. Bargaining is … player winning in Conflict is higher than the share received under Nash bargaining. We thus provide a rationale for conflict … efficient ex post, but we show that a player may prefer Conflict ex ante if there are sufficient asymmetries in strength. There …