We present a legislative bargaining model of the provision of a durable public good over an infinite horizion. In each …

of complementary patents. In this context, we study how the allocation of bargaining power between principal and agents … completion, efficiency requires concentrating bargaining power in the principal. Strengthening the bargaining position of the … or discriminatory offers. When this collective action problem is severe enough, agents are better off when bargaining …

Committee voting has mostly been investigated from the perspective of the standard Baron-Ferejohn model of bargaining … over the division of a pie, in which bargaining ends as soon as the committee reaches an agreement. In standing committees …

One feature of legislative bargaining in naturally occurring settings is that the distribution of seats or voting … weights often does not accurately reflect bargaining power. Game-theoretic predictions about payoffs and coalition formation …

We present a legislative bargaining model of the provision of a durable public good over an infinite horizion. In each …

We present a model of bargaining in which a committee searches over the policy space, successively amending the default … by voting over proposals. Bargaining ends when proposers are unable or unwilling to amend the existing default, which is …

so, we study Markov perfect equilibria of a noncooperative legislative bargaining game, based on underlying simple games … undominated Markov perfect equilibria of the bargaining game, which form a strategically stable set of equilibria, when voters are …