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In a recent paper Konrad and Thum (2014) present a model that shows that unilateral pre-commitment reduces the likelihood of agreement in bilateral negotiations over the provision of a public good when parties have private information over their contribution costs. We test the model in a...
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-contractible up-front investments to improve their bargaining position and gain advantage for possible future conflict. Bargaining is … are lower than under Bargaining when one player is much stronger than the other. Second, the probability of the stronger … player winning in Conflict is higher than the share received under Nash bargaining. We thus provide a rationale for conflict …
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We modify the Acquiring-a-Company game to study lying in ultimatum bargaining. Privately informed sellers send messages …
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We investigate experimentally how the menstrual cycle affects bargaining behavior and bargaining outcomes of women …. Female participants negotiate in an unstructured bilateral bargaining game with asymmetric information about the allocation … of a surplus ('pie size'). We find that the menstrual cycle affects bargaining behavior and that the effects depend on …
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bargaining process from opening offers to (dis)agreements and find that uncertainties in surplus production and (even) a very … coarse performance information lead to bargaining asymmetries. In addition, we find that bargainers' subjective entitlements … bargaining process and significantly contribute to the differences in bargaining outcomes. -- bargaining ; performance …
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We identify the inefficiencies that arise when negotiation between two parties takes place in the presence of transaction costs. First, for some values of these costs it is efficient to reach an agreement but the unique equilibrium outcome is one in which agreement is never reached. Secondly,...
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Real-world negotiations differ fundamentally from existing bargaining theory. Inspired by the Paris Agreement on … climate change, this paper develops a novel bargaining game in which each party quanti.es its own contribution (to a public …, each equilibrium pledge coincides with an asymmetric Nash bargaining solution. The weights placed on others. payouts …
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We report experimental findings on the role of charitable promises in bargaining settings. We vary the enforceability of … char-itable donation. By reneging on initial pledges, dishonest proposers can turn the bargaining power to their advantage …
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We consider ultimatum bargaining over the provision of a public good. Offer-maker and responder can delegate their …
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Wars of conquest and wars of independence are characterized by an asymmetric payoff structure: one party gets aggregate production if it wins, and its own production if it loses, while the other party gets only its own production if it wins, and nothing if it loses. We study a model of war with...
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