This paper shows that any attempt to deviate from the basic bargaining line is doomed to fail. The Cournot attempt results in undistributed pie, while the Rubinstein-Binmore one in insufficient distribution. Discount rate may be important to bargaining, but game theorists have not been...

A “Nash equilibrium in Nash bargains” has become a workhorse bargaining model in applied analyses of bilateral oligopoly. This paper proposes a non-cooperative foundation for “Nash-in-Nash” bargaining that extends the Rubinstein (1982) alternating offers model to multiple upstream and...