Legislative bargaining with heterogeneous disagreement values: theory and experiments

Miller, Luis, Montero, Maria and Vanberg, Christoph (2018) Legislative bargaining with heterogeneous disagreement values: theory and experiments. Games and Economic Behavior, 107 . pp. 60-92. ISSN 0899-8256

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Abstract

We study a legislative bargaining game in which failure to agree in a given round may result in a breakdown of negotiations. In that case, each player receives an exogenous `disagreement value'. We characterize the set of stationary subgame perfect equilibria under all q-majority rules. Under unanimity rule, equilibrium payoffs are strictly increasing in disagreement values. Under all less-than-unanimity rules, expected payoffs are either decreasing or first increasing and then decreasing in disagreement values. We conduct experiments involving three players using majority and unanimity rule, finding qualitative support for several, but not all, of our main predictions. Having a high disagreement value is indeed an advantage under unanimity. Under majority, the player with the highest disagreement value is more likely to be excluded, but this does not consistently result in a lower average payoff.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/907863
Keywords: legislative bargaining; majority rule; unanimity rule; risk of breakdown; experiments
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2017.11.003
Depositing User: Montero, Maria
Date Deposited: 03 Jan 2018 11:32
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 19:29
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/48836

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