The Pizza Night Game: Efficiency, Conflict and Inequality in Tacit Bargaining Games with Focal Points
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Keywords
Pizza Night game; tacit bargaining; conflict of interest; payoff inequality; focal points;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- 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
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2019-03-25 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-EXP-2019-03-25 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-GTH-2019-03-25 (Game Theory)
- NEP-HPE-2019-03-25 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
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