Global governance complexes offer member states opportunities for “regime shifting”: playing off an institutional forum against another with the goal of improving one’s relative bargaining position. I probe internal validity this strategy. The model makes two contributions to complex literature. Formally, first, analysis goes beyond current “outside-option” models regime shifting, involving a p...

Consider a two-person intertemporal bargaining problem in which players choose actions and collect payo¤s while bargaining proceeds. Theory is silent regarding how the surplus is likely to be split, because a folk theorem applies. Perturbing such a game with a rich set of behavioral types for each player yields a speci…c asymptotic prediction for how the surplus will be divided, as the perturba...

Despite the fact that bargaining plays an important role in business communications, it is largely neglected in e-business systems. In this paper a conceptual model that integrates bargaining into web-based e-business systems will be developed starting from an informal characterisation of the bargaining process. Bargaining can be formalised as a two-player game, and integrated with the co-desig...