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Axiomatic bargaining theory: New wine from old bottles

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  • Karos, Dominik
  • Rachmilevitch, Shiran

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Five classical and uncontroversial axioms—symmetry, weak Pareto optimality, restricted monotonicity, midpoint domination, and superadditivity—characterize a bargaining solution. It assigns to each player their midpoint, that is, the n-th share of their utopia point, and equally divides what remains.

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  • Karos, Dominik & Rachmilevitch, Shiran, 2025. "Axiomatic bargaining theory: New wine from old bottles," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 149(C), pages 112-117.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:gamebe:v:149:y:2025:i:c:p:112-117
    DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2024.11.009
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