The formal theory of bargaining originated with John Nash's work in the early 1950s. In this
book we discuss two recent developments in this theory. The first uses the tool of extensive …

A model for strategic negotiation for intelligent agents. As computers advance from isolated
workstations to linked elements in complex communities of systems and people, cooperation …

Federalism is today a topic of intense intellectual debate in many countries throughout the
world. In Europe, the former Soviet Union, South Africa and elsewhere, the view that good …

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 …

Das vorliegende Buch ist ein einführender Text in die nicht-kooperative Spieltheorie, der in
erster Linie diejenigen Studenten im vertiefenden Teil des Bachelor Studiums oder des …

Presidential nominees for executive office are almost always confirmed by the Senate. There
is considerable disagreement in the literature about what accounts for this Senate behavior …

In a distributive setting, this study examines a voting procedure for which agenda formation
is endogenous. It is found, not surprisingly, that agenda formation is another avenue for …

This paper studies a bargaining model where n players negotiate how to share a pie
through (n− 1) bilateral bargaining sessions. In each session, two players bargain for a …

The aim of this paper is to determine how the place of a player in a network of
communications affects her bargaining power with respect to the others. We adapt the …

The economic theory of federalism has become the starting point for most scholarly and
policy discussions as to how best to organize the federal state. The goal is to correct market …