Sequential bargaining in a market with one seller and two different buyers

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  • Torben Tranæs
  • Ebbe Hendon
A matching and bargaining model in a market with one seller and two buyers, differing only in their reservation price, is analyzed. No subgame perfect equilibrium exists for stationary strategies. We demonstrate the existence of inefficient equilibria in which the low buyer receives the good with large probability, even as friction becomes negligible. We investigate the relationship between the use of Nash and sequential bargaining. Nash bargaining seems applicable only when the sequential approach yields a unique stationary strategy subgame perfect equilibrium
Original languageEnglish
JournalGames and Economic Behavior
Volume3
Issue number4
Pages (from-to)453-466
ISSN0899-8256
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1991

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