Inefficient pre-bargaining search

We identify conditions under which a bargainer makes inefficiently large (small) investments in search for information about the opponent’s reservation price. The analysis starts with the observation that a player will invest too much (too little) if the opponent’s expected payoff is decreasing (...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wernerfelt, Birger
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Mohr Siebeck 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67453
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0009-6236