Sequential bargaining with pure common values

Schweinzer, Paul (June 2006): Sequential bargaining with pure common values. SFB/TR 15 Discussion Paper No. 137

Abstract

We study the alternating-offers bargaining problem of assigning an indivisible and commonly valued object to one of two players in return for some payment among players. The players are asymmetrically informed about the object’s value and have veto power over any settlement. There is no depreciation during the bargaining process which involves signalling of private information. We characterise the perfect Bayesian equilibrium of this game which is essentially unique if offers are required to be strictly increasing. Equilibrium agreement is reached gradually and nondeterministically. The better informed player obtains a rent.

• Item Type: Paper (Discussion Paper)
• Keywords: Sequential bargaining, Common values, Incomplete information, Repeated games
• Collections: Special Research Fields > Discussion Paper Series of SFB/TR 15 Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems; Special Research Fields > Discussion Paper Series of SFB/TR 15 Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems > A3 - Markt- und Auktionsdesign in komplexen Umgebungen
• Subjects: 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics
• JEL Classification: C73, C78, D44, D82, J12
• Language: English