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Terrorism, Bargaining, and Credible Commitments

Young, Joseph K.; Findley, Michael - 2014

What explains the variation in terrorism within and across political regimes? We contend that terrorism is most likely to occur in contexts in which governments cannot credibly restrain themselves from abusing their power in the future. We consider a specific institutional arrangement, whether a...

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Strategic Alliances in Coalitional Bargaining

Lee, Joosung - 2018

To analyze players' strategic alliance behavior, we introduce a new noncooperative coalitional bargaining model, in which each player can buy out other players with upfront transfers. We uncover the role of an essential player in a transferable utility game, or a veto player in a simple game, in...

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Chapter 25 Terrorism: A Game-Theoretic Approach

Sandler, Todd; Arce, Daniel G. - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 775-813). 2007

hostage negotiations, we show that the never-concede policy of governments hinges on at least five unstated assumptions that …

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Does it Take Three to Make Two Happy? An Experimental Study on Bargaining with Mediation

Schroeter, Kirsten; Výrašteková, Jana - 2004

all conflict parties. It is the role of a mediator to stimulate communication that leads to mutual understanding of the …Mediation is a conflict resolution method in which a third neutral party provides assistance to the conflict parties …. The process of mediation, as well as any solution to the conflict arising from it, is implemented only by the consent of …

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Characterizing NTU-Bankruptcy Rules Using Bargaining Axioms

Dietzenbacher, Bas - 2018

This paper takes an axiomatic bargaining approach to bankruptcy problems with nontransferable utility by characterizing bankruptcy rules in terms of properties from bargaining theory. In particular, we derive new axiomatic characterizations of the proportional rule, the truncated proportional...

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The economics of transboundary river management

Ansink, Erik; Houba, Harold - 2014

allows us to show how conflict and cooperation over transboundary water resources may occur. It also allows us to pay …

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Splitting games : Nash equilibrium and the optimisation problem

Martins, Ana Paula - 2010

Rubinstein's structure. At each round of negotiations, one and only one player, exogenously determined, can make an - the - offer …

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Moral entitlements and aspiration formation in asymmetric bargaining : experimental evidence from Germany and China

Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Walkowitz, Gari - In: Games 8 (2017) 4, pp. 1-25

negotiations are characterized by long periods of stagnation, only minimal concessions, and the communication of false goals. By … in real life. Our study involves 15 negotiations from Germany and China. Over the course of the negotiation, bargainers …

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Time preferences and bargaining

Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Sebastian - 2017

This paper presents an analysis of general time preferences in the canonical Rubinstein (1982) model of bargaining, allowing for arbitrarily history-dependent strategies. I derive a simple sufficient structure for optimal punishments and thereby fully characterize (i) the set of equilibrium...

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Negotiation across multiple issues

Gayer, Gabrielle; Persitz, Dotan - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 11 (2016) 3, pp. 937-969

In the present work, agreement on allocation of payments from multiple issues requires unanimous consent of all parties involved. The agents are assumed to know the aggregate payoffs but do not know their decomposition by issues. This framework applies to many real-world problems, such as the...

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