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Efficiency, equality, and labeling : an experimental investigation of focal points in explicit bargaining

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Isoni, Andrea, Poulsen, Anders, Sugden, Robert and Tsutsui, Kei (2014) Efficiency, equality, and labeling : an experimental investigation of focal points in explicit bargaining. American Economic Review, 104 (10). pp. 3256-3287. doi:10.1257/aer.104.10.3256 ISSN 0002-8282.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.104.10.3256

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Abstract

We investigate Schelling's hypothesis that payoff-irrelevant labels ("cues") can influence the outcomes of bargaining games with communication. In our experimental games, players negotiate over the division of a surplus by claiming valuable objects that have payoff-irrelevant spatial locations. Negotiation occurs in continuous time, constrained by a deadline. In some games, spatial cues are opposed to principles of equality or efficiency. We find a strong tendency for players to agree on efficient and minimally unequal payoff divisions, even if spatial cues suggest otherwise. But if there are two such divisions, cues are often used to select between them, inducing distributional effects.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science
Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Journal or Publication Title: American Economic Review
Publisher: American Economic Association
ISSN: 0002-8282
Official Date: October 2014
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October 2014Published
Volume: 104
Number: 10
Page Range: pp. 3256-3287
DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.10.3256
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
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Access rights to Published version: Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit: 26 July 2019
Date of first compliant Open Access: 26 July 2019

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