Two-Person Bargaining Experiments with Incomplete Information

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

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3. The Game Theoretic Analysis

   1. Two-Person Bargaining with Incomplete Information

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   2. The Nash Equilibria in Pure Strategies

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      Pages 11-53

4. The Game Playing Experiment

   1. Related Bargaining Experiments

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   2. The Experimental Design

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   3. The Agreement Outcomes

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   4. Break Offs

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   5. Further Aspects

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   6. The Bargaining Process

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      Pages 158-180

   7. Individual Adaptation to Experience

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      Pages 181-185

   8. A Picture of the Subjects’ Behavior

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      Pages 186-194

5. The Strategy Experiment

   1. The Strategy Experiment

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   2. Typicalness of the Final Strategies

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   3. An Evolutionary Tournament

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   4. Summary and Conclusions

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6. Back Matter

   Pages 275-298

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Think of the following situation: A project yielding a gross profit of 100 is offered to two firms. The project can only be conducted by a cooperation of the two firms. No firm is able to conduct the project alone. In order to receive the project the firms have to agree on the allocation of the gross profit. Each of both firms has an alternative project it conducts in case the joint project is not realized. The profitability of an allocation of the joint gross profit for a firm depends on the gross profit from its alternative project. The gross profit from an alternative project can be either 0 (low alternative value) or O

• Entscheidungstheorie
• Experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung
• Spieltheorie
• decision theory
• economics
• equilibrium
• experimental economics
• game theory
• incomplete information
• strategy

• Wirtschaftstheorie I, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

  Bettina Kuon

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