Presidents’ Vetoes and Audience Costs

Audience costs and reputation in crisis bargaining

In crisis bargaining literature, it is conventional wisdom that the ability of generating higher audience costs is an advantage for a leader of a state. However, empirical studies show that democratic states use this mechanism only occasionally. This paper formally shows that higher audience costs may be good or bad depending on (1) the benefit-cost ratio of the crisis, (2) initial probability ...

Terrorism and Game Theory Coalitions, negotiations and audience costs

iii Preface The decision to study Peace & Development and conducting my research into terrorism was primarily motivated by my experiences whilst carrying out research in Peru during the hostage situation of the Japanese Embassy in 1996 (initiated by the Moviemento Revolutionario de Tupac Amaru (MRTA)). Peruvians condemned the action, but sure, their manifesto was sound and true and the director...

Conflict Resolution: Role of Strategic Communication, Reputation and Audience Costs∗

Conflicts and disputes, whether they are related to business or politics, usually end with ex-ante inefficient settlements including war. Crisis bargaining models equipped with informational asymmetries and audience costs are extensively analyzed in economics and political science literature to provide rational explanations for these long-standing wars of nerves. This paper investigates the rol...

Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Death: Closing the Constitution's Succession Gap

Jet Vetoes interfering with H

Far off-shell Higgs production in H → WW,ZZ, is a particularly powerful probe of Higgs properties, allowing one to disentangle Higgs width and coupling information unavailable in on-shell rate measurements. These measurements require an understanding of the cross section in the far off-shell region in the presence of realistic experimental cuts. We analytically study the effect of a pT jet veto...