Resolving ethnic conflicts is no easy task. In the 1990s, civil wars engulfed Somalia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Cambodia, Yugoslavia...the list goes on. In the Balkans, the disintegration of Josip Tito's pan-Slavic dream destabilized the security of the region and relations between t…
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This dissertation is a quantitative investigation of father involvement among unmarried, non-resident fathers, and seeks to uncover the factors that keep them engaged in the parenting process over time using data from the Fragile Families and Child Well Being Study. Contrasting …
How can states deter wars between other states without choosing sides? When will they try? When will they succeed? States sometimes do try to deter both sides in a rivalry. I call them “pivot-states,” and the policy “pivotal deterrence.” Using a deductive model I first identify …
This research studies the reasons that give rise to buyers' desire to negotiate with sellers in retail markets. This research also studies the role of buyer-seller negotiations in influencing customers' satisfaction with the buying process and their enjoyment during the process.…
Recent accounts of workplace union representation have emphasised the exclusion of shop stewards from management decision-making processes, and have posited a shift in shop steward activity away from dealing with collective issues through bargaining, towards dealing with individ…
This thesis contains three essays related to fixed investment and crude oil. The first essay examines the implications of building a cross-border oil infrastructure project within the context of the bargaining problem (the Nash bargaining solution, and the alternating offer barg…
We present a study of conflict from an economic perspective. We start by reviewing the approach to conflict in the economic sciences. We model conflict as a process of allocation of resources into two main technologies, production and appropriation. Then we complement this frame…
Public sector corruption is endemic in many economies and is frequently cited as a cause of poor economic performance. Corruption hinders the completion of beneficial transactions and distorts the outcomes of economic policies. It can also affect the policy choices of government…
Previous studies of the influence of personality on behaviour in experimental games have provided conflicting and inconclusive results. The present investigation was designed to search on a broad front for personality correlates of behaviour in a two-person bargaining game, the …
This study provides an agency-centered theoretical framework of institutional change at domestic level. It argues that institutional change should be understood as a conflictual process having two stages: initiation and bargaining. At the first stage, certain internal and extern…
In this dissertation, I address the topic of engagement, a frequently mentioned but poorly understood instrument of foreign policy. My analysis proceeds in three steps. First, I critique the various conceptualizations of engagement that are presently circulating in the Internati…
Rural credit programs in developing countries are designed to help the poorest of the poor by providing collateral-free loans at a low cost. In order to properly measure the efficacy of these programs, one needs to examine not only the pecuniary benefits of the programs but also…
“Audience costs” models of international relations suggest a purely informational role for domestic politics in conflict settings. Here, domestic politics serve as a rich signal of belligerents' true intentions, allowing them to more quickly resolve disagreements, decreasing the…
This dissertation develops the concept of an International Security Cooperation Market. The currency of this market is the side-deal. These deals, also known as issue-linkages or side-payments, are systematically negotiated between Lead Nations - nations for which the execution …
This dissertation contains three chapters on the political economy and economic history of labor unions. It uses microeconomic theory to explore the strategic environment in which two players (such as a union and firm) bargain in the shadow of conflict. It also uses newly compil…