Which Side Are You On? Bias, Credibility, and Mediation

By Andrew H. Kydd. 2003

352 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/e9d24ebdca4b54bc1a4137556f8eb6486354f745

Citations in the corpus

• Introducing the Civil Wars Mediation (CWM) dataset (2011, neutral): “We conclude that the CWM data open new avenues for the study of mediation in civil wars.”
• Talking peace (2014, neutral): “Kydd (2003) argues that unbiased mediators are not credible, as they will have strong incentives to portray the other side as peaceful, irrespective of it being true or not.”
• War as a Commitment Problem (2004, neutral): “Broadly speaking, there are two rationalist approaches to the inefficiency puzzle inherent in war+ A purely informational problem exists when states fight solely because of asymmetric information+Were there complete information, there would be no fighting+ By contrast, a pure commitment problem exis”