Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/75482 
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 213
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We identify the inefficiencies that arise when negotiation between two parties takes place in the presence of transaction costs. First, for some values of these costs it is efficient to reach an agreement but the unique equilibrium outcome is one in which agreement is never reached. Secondly, even when there are equilibria in which an agreement is reached, we find that the model always has an eqilibrium in which agreement is never reached, as well as equilibria in which agreement is delayed for an a rbitrary length of time. Finally, the only way in which the parties can reach an agreement in equilibrium is by using inefficient punishments for (some of) the opponent's deviations. We argue that this implies that, when the parties are given the opportunit y to renegotiate out of these inefficiencies, the only equilibrium outcome which survives is the one in which agreement is never reached, regardless of the value of the transaction costs.
Subjects: 
Optional bargaining costs
inefficient bargaining outcomes
renegotiation
imperfect recall
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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