Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/207646 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper Series No. 670
Publisher: 
University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
We conduct 3-person bargaining experiments in which the surplus being divided is produced by completing a prior task. Using a Baron-Ferejohn framework, we investigate how differences in contributions to production affect bargaining under different decision rules. Under unanimity rule, all proposals and agreements constitute convex combinations of the equal and proportional splits. Contrary to our predictions, this pattern largely persists under majority rule. In sharp contrast to prior experiments in which an exogenous surplus is divided, few subjects attempt to build minimum winning coalitions when the surplus is jointly produced.
Subjects: 
multilateral bargaining
claims
fairness
majority rule
experiments
JEL: 
C79
C92
D63
D70
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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