Intergroup competition has been proven to increase ingroup cooperation, but it will divide individuals into high-status groups and low-status groups, which may lead to group-level conflict and affect cooperation behavior. In this paper, we conduct a laboratory experiment to find how group status...

Crisis bargaining games are widely used to analyze bilateral conflicts, featuring strategic bluffing akin to poker. Players risk substantial losses from overplaying their hand but can secure significant gains if their opponent concedes. Since decisions in crises typically emerge from collective...

We use novel surveys of firms and workers, linked to administrative employer-employee data, to study the prevalence and importance of individual bargaining in wage determination. We show that simple survey questions accurately elicit firms' bargaining strategies. Using the elicited strategies...