Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/74298 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 95.2005
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
This paper analyses strategic bargaining in negotiations between non-monolithic players, i.e. agents starting negotiations can split up in smaller entities during the bargaining process. We show that the possibility of scission in the informed coalition implies that it loses its information advantages. We also show that when the possibility of a scission exists the uninformed player does not focus on his or her beliefs about the strength of the informed coalition but on the proportion of weak/strong players within this coalition. Finally, our results show that the possibility of a scission reduces the incentives for the leader to propose a high offer to ensure a global agreement. We apply this framework to international negotiations on global public goods and to wage negotiations.
Subjects: 
Strategic bargaining
Non-monolithic players
Scission
Noncooperative game-theory
JEL: 
C72
D74
Q28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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