Problems of cooperation--in which agents seek ways to jointly improve their welfare--are
ubiquitous and important. They can be found at scales ranging from our daily routines--such …

An emerging literature on civil and international conflict management is developing and
testing insights from formal theories of conflict. Third parties may attempt to prevent or …

We compare three common dispute resolution processes–negotiation, mediation, and
arbitration–in the framework of Crawford and Sobel [V. Crawford, J. Sobel, Strategic …

Wars impose tremendous costs on societies and the question of how to end them is of
foremost importance. Several hundred books and scientific articles have been written on …

This paper explores the implications of costly information acquisition in a strategic
communication setting. We show that equilibrium decisions based on a biased expert's …

We analyze the performance of various communication protocols in a generalization of the
Crawford–Sobel (1982) model of cheap talk that allows for multiple receivers. We find that …

This paper characterizes optimal mediation in sender-receiver games. We assume that the
mediator's objective is to maximize the ex-ante welfare of the sender. Mediated equilibria …

This paper provides new analytical tools for studying principal-agent problems with adverse
selection and limited commitment. By allowing the principal to use general communication …

We identify a novel force behind the benefit of misaligned preferences in corporate
governance. Our model entails a CEO who encounters a project and, after gathering …

In this paper, I analyze an example in which two perfectly informed experts advise a decision
maker. Each expert has private information about her own bias. I show that consulting two …