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We report an experiment designed to study bargaining behavior between one buyer and multiple sellers with … complementarity and how it is influenced by fairness concern and information transparency. We base our setup on a structured … alternating-offer bargaining model in which a buyer procures complementary items from two heterogeneous sellers with endogenous …
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The results of Ultimatum Game experiments are often quoted as evidence for the role of fairness in bargaining or in … economic behaviour more generally. This paper argues that the observed fairness levels are contingent on the traditional … opponent repeatedly. This finding is not expected by the traditional fairness hypothesis. A detailed analysis of the dynamics …
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We conduct multi-person one-shot ultimatum games that reflect important aspects of collective bargaining. In all …
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Using a unique experimental data set, we investigate how asymmetric legal rights shape bargainers’ aspiration levels through moral entitlements derived from equity norms and number prominence. Aspiration formation is typically hard to observe in real life. Our study involves 15 negotiations...
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Two groups of voters of known sizes disagree over a single binary decision to be taken by simple majority. Individuals have different, privately observed intensities of preferences and before voting can buy or sell votes among themselves for money. We study the implication of such trading for...
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the bargaining game. The paper's main focus is on the agreement outcomes, the average payoffs, the concession behavior and …
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Using a unique experimental data set, we investigate how asymmetric legal rights shape bargainers' aspiration levels through moral entitlements derived from equity norms and number prominence. Aspiration formation is typically hard to observe in real life. Our study involves 15 negotiations from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852710
Our study concerns bargaining behavior in situations where one party is in a stronger position than the other. We …' concern for fairness, and the tradeoff the disadvantaged player makes between pursuing a fair outcome from a disadvantaged … weak players persist in seeking "fairness" is also a function of how much it (potentially) costs them to do so. Students …
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Video taped group decision experiments on a two-person investment game were used to elicit the motivational structure …
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Rawls (1958) suggested that it is possible to arrive at a fair allocation in a 2-player Nash demand game by granting equal gains to both players. Rawls theorized that players themselves would select this allocation if they bargain from the 'original position'. Harsanyi (1958) suggested the...
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