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Bargaining in Standing Committees

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  • Vincent Anesi

    () (School of Economics, University of Nottingham)

  • Daniel J Seidmann

    () (School of Economics, University of Nottingham)

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Committee voting has mostly been investigated from the perspective of the standard Baron-Ferejohn model of bargaining over the division of a pie, in which bargaining ends as soon as the committee reaches an agreement. In standing committees, however, existing agreements can be amended. This paper studies an extension of the Baron-Ferejohn framework to a model with an evolving default that reflects this important feature of policymaking in standing committees: In each of an infinite number of periods, the ongoing default can be amended to a new policy (which in turn determines the default for the next period). The model provides a number of quite different predictions. In particular: (i) Substantial shares of the pie are wasted each period and the size principle fails in some pure strategy Markov perfect equilibria of non-unanimity games with patient enough players; and (ii) All Markov perfect equilibria are Pareto inefficient when discount factors are heterogenous. However, there is a unique equilibrium outcome in unanimity standing committee games, which coincides with the unique equilibrium outcome of the corresponding Baron-Ferejohn framework.

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Paper provided by The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham in its series Discussion Papers with number 2012-09.

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Date of creation: Sep 2012
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Keywords: legislative bargaining; endogenous default; efficiency; pork barrel;

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  1. T. Renee Bowen & Ying Chen & Hulya Eraslan, 2012. "Mandatory Versus Discretionary Spending: The Status Quo Effect," Koç University-TUSIAD Economic Research Forum Working Papers 1229, Koc University-TUSIAD Economic Research Forum.

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