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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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We introduce a noncooperative multilateral bargaining model for a network-restricted environment, in which players can communicate only with their neighbors. Each player strategically chooses the bargaining partners among the neighbors to buy out their communication links with upfront transfers....
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Why do contests exist in settings where negotiation provides a costless alternative? I assess a new explanation: parties may be overconfident about their ability or optimistic about their chances of winning. For both parties in a contest, this hubris: (i) reduces the incentive to exit the...
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We present a version of Baliga and Sjöström’s (2012a) conflict games with two asymmetric players. The players …
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We auction scarce rights to play the Proposer and Responder positions in ultimatum games. As a control treatment, we … randomly allocate these rights and charge exogenous participation fees. These participation fee sequences match the auction … to a session-specific Nash equilibrium, and auction prices emerge supporting this equilibrium by the principle of forward …
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