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On The Power to Hurt: Costly Conflict with Completely Informed States

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  • Harold Houba

    (Vrije Universiteit and Tinbergen Institute)

  • Quan Wen

    (Vanderbilt University)

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Slantchev (2003, American Political Science Review, 97) studies a class of negotiation models to explain costly conflict between two completely informed nations. In one of his main propositions (Proposition 2.3), Slantchev provides a strategy profile to support the so-called extremal subgame perfect equilibrium, where one nation receives its lowest equilibrium payoff. By means of a counter example, we demonstrate the existence of an equilibrium with one nation's payoffs below the strategy profile provided in his Proposition 2.3 (Case 2).

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  • Harold Houba & Quan Wen, 2006. "On The Power to Hurt: Costly Conflict with Completely Informed States," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 3(3), pages 1-6.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-05c70039
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