There is a large and growing body of evidence on the health benefits of engagement in
leisure activities (voluntary, enjoyable non-work activities, such as hobbies, arts …

In second price Internet auctions with a fixed end time, such as those on eBay, many bidders
submit their bids in the closing minutes or seconds of an auction. We propose an internet …

We consider a k-player sequential bargaining model in which the size of the cake and the
order in which players move follow a general Markov process. For games in which one …

In many business transactions, labor-management relations, international conflicts, and
welfare-state reforms, bargainers hold strong entitlements that are often generated by claims …

With an increasing number of applications in the context of multi-agent systems, automated
negotiation is a rapidly growing area. Written by top researchers in the field, this state-of-the …

This paper models the wage-contract negotiation procedure between a union and a firm as
a sequential bargaining process in which the union also decides, in each period, whether or …

This article explores the impact of time pressure on negotiation processes in territorial
conflicts in the post–cold war era. While it is often argued that time pressure can help …

This paper studies bilateral multi-issue negotiation between self-interested autonomous
agents. Now, there are a number of different procedures that can be used for this process; …

We study the effect of imperfect commitment in noncooperative two-person bargaining
games. By establishing the reputation for being stubborn, a player sometimes commits to her …

Public agencies have discretion on the time domain, and politicians deploy numerous policy
instruments to constrain it. Yet little is known about how administrative procedures that affect …