Timing effect in bargaining and ex ante efficiency of the relative utilitarian solution

Omer F. Baris ()
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Omer F. Baris: Nazarbayev University

Theory and Decision, 2018, vol. 84, issue 4, No 3, 547-556

Abstract: Abstract In this note, I provide an axiomatic characterization of the relative utilitarian bargaining solution (RU) to Nash (Econometrica 18:155–162, 1950) bargaining problems. The solution is obtained when Nash’s independence of irrelevant alternatives axiom is replaced by the weak linearity axiom, while retaining the other three axioms. RU maximizes the sum of proportional gains, or, equivalently, minimizes the sum of proportional losses. RU is scale invariant and compared to the Nash (Econometrica 18:155–162, 1950) and Kalai and Smorodinsky (Econometrica 43:513–18, 1975) solutions, it is ex ante efficient when the bargaining problem is considered as a lottery of future bargaining problems.

Keywords: Bargaining; Weak linearity; Relative utilitarianism; Timing effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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