This paper provides an economic foundation for non-binding mediation to stimulate first collective bargaining … agreements, as implemented in British Columbia since 1993. We show that the outcome of first-contract mediation is Pareto … profits under mediation coincide with the Owen values of the corresponding cooperative game with the coalitional structure …

Using non-cooperative game theory the effects of mediation on the divorce rate and on the utility of the spouses are … analysed. Two kinds of mediation are considered: restricted mediation that reduces the costs of divorce and extended mediation … spouses. It is shown that restricted mediation not only may increase the divorce rate but that also both kinds of mediation …