Concessions try to avoid conflict in bargaining and can finally lead to an agreement. Although they usually are seen as … attempts. We experimentally compare three protocols of concession bargaining, the normal form or static one, the one where …

Negotiations frequently end in conflict after one party rejects a final offer. In a large-scale internet experiment, we … investigate whether a 24-hour cooling-off period leads to fewer rejections in ultimatum bargaining. We conduct a standard cash …

Envy is often the cause of mutually harmful outcomes. We experimentally study the impact of envy in a bargaining … 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 …

bargaining power. We show that negligibly small changes in the bargaining power of non-elites, conditional on enfranchisment, via … coalition formation, constrains the bargaining power of the stronger elite and result in discontinuous changes in equilibrium …

This paper studies the conditions under which intra-elite conflict leads to a democracy. There are two risk averse … bargaining power, and a large non-elite class unable to act collectively. We characterize a democracy as consistng of both …

Envy is often the cause of mutually harmful outcomes. We experimentally study the impact of envy in a bargaining … 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 …