-perceptions and thereby generate costs of conflict for the principal. We identify conditions for a positive welfare effect of … increasing costs of conflict or increasing sensitivity to ego-threats, and a negative welfare effect of a more informative …

than through the agent himself. This implies that mediation is strictly helpful if and only if the likelihood of a conflict … of interest is positive but not too high. The value of mediation depends nonmonotonically on the degree of conflict. Our …We study the reasons and conditions under which mediation is beneficial when a principal needs information from an …

This paper considers a partial equilibrium model of conflict where two asymmetric, rational and risk-neutral opponents … option of choosing a second instrument to affect the outcome of the conflict. The second instrument is assumed to capture a … complex bundle of Conflict Management Procedures (CMPs). Through comparative statics, different scenarios are studied. A …

Two individuals are involved in a conflict situation in which preferences are ex ante uncertain. While they eventually …

with information to decrease the ex-ante war probability. In a conflict between two parties with private information about … conflicting parties benefit from mediation, as the ex-ante war probability is reduced. The benefit is taken up by weak conflicting … parties. This benefit is larger when war is costlier and when the war probability absent mediation is higher …