The purpose of this paper is to provide a simple example of an alternating offers bargaining model with breakdowns, in which both the breakdown probabilites and the order of play are determined endogenously. We consider two countries in a conflict over a contested asset. We assume that one of...

This paper shows that the Rubinstein alternating offers model can be modified to provide a Pareto superior outcome in the context of the right-to-manage union-firm bargaining. Two examples of bargaining protocols that yield a superior outcome are provided. In the first example, the union and the...