4 papers
Inefficient Peace or Preventive War?
Liqun Liu, Tusi, Wen
We study a model of two-player bargaining game in the shadow of a preventive trade war that examines why states deliberately maintain trade barriers in the age of globalization. Gl…
Constraining to Motivate
Liqun Liu
Effective decision-making often involves a principal delegating authority to better-informed agents. However, when agents'careers depend on how their decisions are perceived, they…
Domestic Constraints in Crisis Bargaining
Liqun Liu
I study how political bias and audience costs impose domestic institutional constraints that affect states' capacity to reach peaceful agreements during crises. With a mechanism de…
Motivating Careerists
Liqun Liu
Motivating careerists is challenging for political organizations. Without explicit contracts, careerists often pander to public opinions or their superiors' preferences. Worse, whe…