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experiment compares one-shot and indefinite horizon versions of random-proposer majority bargaining (the Baron-Ferejohn game … and bargaining games from three seminal social preference experiments. …
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Agents are farsighted when they consider the ultimate consequences of their actions. We re-examine the classical questions of implementation theory under complete information in a setting with transfers, where farsighted coalitions are considered fundamental behavioral units, and the equilibrium...
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We provide an explanation for why committees may behave over-cautiously. A committee of experts makes a decision on a proposed innovation on behalf of 'society'. Each expert's signal about the innovation's quality is generated by the available evidence and the best practices of the experts'...
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Existing theoretical and experimental studies have established that unanimity is a poor decision rule for promoting information aggregation. Despite this, unanimity is frequently used in committees making decisions on behalf of society. This paper shows that when committee members are exposed to...
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Klassischerweise üben Vertreter der Wirtschaft sich jenseits der unmittelbaren Betroffenheit weitgehend parteipolitischer Enthaltsamkeit. Da sich in der Bundesrepublik mit der Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) eine von ihrer wirtschaftspolitischen Programmatik her liberal-rechtspopulistische...
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Ostdeutschen AfD-Landesverbände sind radikaler aufgestellt als ihre westdeutschen Pendants und ihre politische Durchschlagskraft könnte sich bei den Landtagswahlen in Sachsen, Thüringen und Brandenburg im September noch vergrößern. Trotz der mittlerweile vielfachen Warnungen vor nicht...
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We investigate a random proposer bargaining game with a dead line. A bounded time interval is divided into bargaining … periods of equal length and we study the limit of the subgame perfect equilibrium outcome as the number of bargaining periods …
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We study a Baron-Ferejohn (1989) type of bargaining model to which we append an investment stage. As long as no … accept it. Prior to the bargaining stage, players may make investments to increase their recognition probabili- ties in the … bargaining game. The investment stage is modeled in the standard way, first suggested by Tullock (1980). When investment costs …
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This paper analyzes fairness and bargaining in a dynamic bilateral matching market. Traders from both sides of the … market are pairwise matched to share the gains from trade. The bargaining outcome depends on the traders’ fairness attitudes … in isolated bilateral bargaining. …
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I revisit the Rubinstein (1982) model for the classic problem of price hag- gling and show that bargaining can become a … of fixed bargaining costs). Augmenting the protocol with unilateral exit options for responding bargainers generally …
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