In the context of international bargaining, standard models predict that a shift in military power can cause preventive … war because it changes the relative bargaining position between states. We find that shifts in military power are not the … the relative bargaining position changes substantially …

To analyze players' strategic alliance behavior, we introduce a new noncooperative coalitional bargaining model, in … transferable utility game, or a veto player in a simple game, in preventing efficient outcomes and we show that delay in bargaining … generically occurs. In an application to legislative bargaining with vote buying, if a veto player and a non-veto player coexist …

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 …

In the context of international bargaining, standard models predict that a shift in military power can cause preventive … war because it changes the relative bargaining position between states. We find that shifts in military power are not the … the relative bargaining position changes substantially. -- Bargaining ; commitment problems ; shifts in power …

This paper presents an analysis of general time preferences in the canonical Rubinstein (1982) model of bargaining …

experimental results suggest: In a simple bargaining game with an exogenous mediation proposal, the likelihood of conflict is … independent of the balance of power. If bargaining involves endogenous demand choices, however, the likelihood of conflict is … higher if power is more imbalanced. Even though endogenous bargaining outcomes reflect the players' unequal fighting …

This paper analyzes reputational bargaining between two parties who can strategically send an ultimatum to resolve the …