We present a model of boundedly rational play in single-shot 2 × 2 games. Players choose strategies based on the perceived salience of their own payoffs and, if own-payoff salience is uninformative, on the perceived salience of their opponent's payoffs. When own payoffs are salient, the model's...

I consider two new simple bargaining games in which two players bargain over division of a fixed amount of money. Both games are strategically equivalent to the dictator game, in that one player has the unilateral ability to determine the allocation. However, that player can instead choose to...

A firm may strategically decrease capacity to gain bargaining power over its suppliers. While traditional models of bargaining imply that the incentive to do so is minimal, I report results from a laboratory experiment that suggest the existence of incentives to decrease capacity quite...