Efficiency versus equality in bargaining

Galeotti, Fabio, Montero, Maria and Poulsen, Anders (2019) Efficiency versus equality in bargaining. Journal of the European Economic Association, 17 (6). 1941–1970. ISSN 1542-4766

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Abstract

We consider how the outcome of bargaining varies with changes in the trade-off between equality, efficiency, and total-earnings maximization. We observe that subjects avoid an equal-earnings outcome if it is Pareto inefficient; a large proportion of bargaining pairs avoid an equal and Pareto efficient outcome in favor of one giving unequal and total-earnings maximizing payoffs, and this proportion increases when unequal outcomes imply larger earnings to one of the players, even though this also implies higher inequality; finally, we document a compromise effect that violates the independence of irrelevant alternatives condition.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	bargaining,efficiency,equality,communication,experiment,independence of irrelevant alternatives
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Environment, Resources and Conflict Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Behavioural Economics
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Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	12 Mar 2018 10:30
Last Modified:	17 Jul 2025 01:33
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/66465
DOI:	10.1093/jeea/jvy030

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