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A Remark on Bargaining and Non-Expected Utility

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  • Oscar Volij

    (Department of Economics, Iowa State University.)

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We show that a bargaining game of alternating offers with exogenous risk of breakdown and played by dynamically consistent non-expected utility maximizers is formally equivalent to Rubinstein's (1982) game with time preference. Within this game, the behavior of dynamically consistent players is indistinguishable from the behavior of expected utility maximizers.

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  • Oscar Volij, 2002. "A Remark on Bargaining and Non-Expected Utility," Economic theory and game theory 016, Oscar Volij.
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    Keywords

    Bargaining; non-expected utility.;

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    • C70 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - General
    • C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
    • C78 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Bargaining Theory; Matching Theory

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