We study whether the Coase conjecture holds in a model of bargaining during conflict due to Powell and Fearon. Two … negotiations are frictionless. Thus, the Coase conjecture does not hold. We study how the minimum length of conflict depends on the …

war because it changes the relative bargaining position between states. We find that shifts in military power are not the …In the context of international bargaining, standard models predict that a shift in military power can cause preventive … only cause of war under commitment problems and that commitment problems per se are not necessarily a cause of war even if …

's expediency of war may resonate with a malevolence perspective, but the political bias of bargaining theory, as theorized in the …Economic theorizations of malevolence as laid out in Bargaining Theory (Anderton and Carter 2009) have discussed how … calculus of war between two nations. To put this assertion to the test, this working paper examines the Pulwama War and the …

The rise of a new power may lead the dominant power to seek a preventive war. We study this scenario in an experimental … two-stage bargaining game. In each stage, the rising power makes a bargaining offer and the declining power must choose …

We analyze a dynamic model of bargaining and war with rich sets of strategic options. There are two states located on a … over objects that influence future bargaining power. That is, it is valuable to have more territory, not only because it … brings higher utility, but also because it increases future bargaining power, as it can be used to generate military …