Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34211 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 2128
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Consider a model of bargaining, in which two players, 1 and 2, share a pie of size y. The bargaining environment is described by a set of parameters [lamda] that may affect agents' preferences over the agreement sharing, the status quo outcome, or both. The outcomes (i.e., whether an agreement is reached, and if so the individual shares) and the environment (including the size of the pie) are known, but neither the agents' utilities nor their threat points. Assuming that the agents adopt a Nash bargaining solution, we investigate the empirical content of this assumption. We first show that in the most general framework, any outcome can be rationalized as a Nash solution. However, if (i) the size of the pie y does not influence the players' threat points and (ii) there exist (at least) two parameters [lamda]1 and [lamda]2 that are player-specific, in the sense that [lamda]i does not influence the utility or the threat point of player j Æ i, then Nash bargaining generates strong testable restrictions. Moreover, the underlying structure of the bargaining, i.e., the players' utility and threat point functions, can be recovered under slightly more demanding conditions.
Subjects: 
bargaining game
Nash solution
testability
identifiability
cardinal utility
JEL: 
C71
C78
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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