Commitment in Alternating Offers Bargaining

Topi Miettinen and Andrés Perea ()

No 8, SITE Working Paper Series from Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics

Abstract: We extend the Ståhl-Rubinstein alternating-offer bargaining procedure to allow players, prior to each bargaining round, to simultaneously and visibly commit to some share of the pie. If commitment costs are small but increasing in the committed share, then the unique outcome consistent with common belief in future rationality (Perea, 2009), or more restrictively subgame perfect Nash equilibrium, exhibits a second mover advantage. In particular, as the smallest share of the pie approaches zero, the horizon approaches in…nity, and commitment costs approach zero, the unique bargaining outcome corresponds to the reversed Rubinstein outcome (d/(1 + d); 1/(1 + d)).

Keywords: alternating offer bargaining; bargaining power; commitment; epistemic game theory; patience (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C78 D84 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2009-11-17
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