Toward an Understanding of Optimal Mediation Choice

• In Event: Experiments on Peace, War, and Emergency

Brief Overview

We experimentally study mediator selection in bargaining with incomplete information. Contrary to the theory of neutral optimum (Myerson, 1983), subjects do not choose the neutral mediator over the peace-maximizing mediator.

Authors

• Jin Yeub Kim, Yonsei University

• Wooyoung Lim, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology