Part I: Theoretical foundations of bargaining research -- Chapter 1: Field Experiments in Bargaining -- Chapter 2: Commitment Tactics in Bargaining -- Chapter 3: The Role of Emotions in Bargaining -- Chapter 4: New Empirical Perspectives on Bargaining -- Chapter 5: Reputational Bargaining --...

This chapter surveys the literature on the microstructure of housing markets. It considers one-sided search, random matching, and directed search models. It also examines the bargaining that takes place once a match has occurred, with the bargaining taking various forms, including two-party...

This chapter surveys a sizable and growing literature on coalition formation. We refer to theories in which one or more groups of agents (“coalitions”) deliberately get together to jointly determine within-group actions, while interacting noncooperatively across groups. The chapter describes...

This chapter surveys recent models of coalition and network formation in a unified framework. Comparisons are drawn among various procedures of network and coalition formation, involving simultaneous and sequential moves. The survey also covers models of group and network formation by farsighted...