The Oxford Handbook of Economic Conflict Resolution

Individuals, groups, and societies all experience conflict, and attempt to resolve it in numerous ways. This Handbook brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to offer perspectives on the current state and future challenges in negotiation and conflict resolution. It will serve as an aid to scholars in identifying new research topics, provide a guide to current debates, and identify complementarities between approaches taken by different disciplines and the insights which those approaches generate. Leading researchers of economics, psychology, organizational behavior, policy, and other fields have contributed chapters. The volume is organized to purposefully juxtapose contributions from different fields to enable cross-fertilization between the disciplines and to generate new and creative approaches to studying the topic. These chapters provide a lens into current scholarship, and a window into the future of the field of economic conflict resolution. The confluence of research perspectives represented will identify further synergies and advances in our understanding of this topic.

Gary E. Bolton is Schwartz Professor of Business at the Smeal College of Business, Penn State and is Director of the Smeal College Laboratory for Economic Management and Auctions. Dr. Bolton studies economic and business decision-making and strategic games, with special interest in bargaining, cooperation, reputation building, social utility, and strategic learning.

Rachel T. A. Croson is Professor and Director of The Negotiations Center, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences and School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her research focuses on the intersection between economics and psychology, with a special focus on bargaining behavior.