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's favour during the day. These presumptions are then shown to be confirmed by our data set. -- Bargaining ; Markets … distribution of the buyer's reservation price. We show that periods with no buyer refusals, of offers or bargaining with no …
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The findings on the ultimatum game are considered as belonging to the most robust experimental results. In this paper we present a slightly altered version of the mini ultimatum game of Bolton and Zwick (1995). Whereas in the latter exactly equal splits were feasible in our games these were...
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Rational bargaining behavior depends crucially on the rules of bargaining, especially on whether parties decide … sequentially or independently. Whereas in ultimatum bargaining the proposer can exploit the responder, independent commitments … result in more balanced payoffs. To limit the scope of possible bargaining results we try to rule out certain bargaining …
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If one abstracts from specially organized markets like stock or commodity exchanges, (international) trade relies on … bargaining between the interested parties. Whereas earlier the results of bargaining were seen as unpredictable or determined by … an at most vaguely defined concept of (relative) bargaining power, it is simply a field of application in view of game …
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endowment effect improves one's bargaining position in bilateral trades. We show that for a general class of evolutionary …
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accomplishing this split. -- ultimatum game ; wage flexibility ; wage ratchet effect ; wage bargaining ; labour market ; fair wages …
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This paper analyzes a two-stage sealed-bid auction that is frequently employed in privatization, takeover, and merger and acquisition contests. This auction format yields the same expected revenue as the open ascending (English) auction, yet is less susceptible to preemptive bidding and...
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We analyze the dynamics of a game of sequential bidding in the presence of stochastic scale effects in the form of stochastic economies or diseconomies of scale. We show that economies give rise to declining expected equilibrium prices, whereas the converse is not generally true. Moreover,...
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Similar to Levati and Neugebauer (2001), a clock is used by which participants can vary their individual contributions for voluntarily providing a public good. As time goes by, participants either in(de)crease their contribution gradually or keep it constant. Groups of two poorly and two richly...
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This study examines bidder preferences between alternative auction institutions. In particular we seek to experimentally characterize the degree to which bidders prefer an ascending auction over a sealed bid auction. We find very strong ceteris paribus preferences for the ascending institution...
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