More than thirty years of ultimatum bargaining experiments: Motives, variations, and a survey of the recent literature

W Güth, MG Kocher - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014 - Elsevier
Take-it or leave-it offers are probably as old as mankind. Our objective here is, first, to
provide a, probably subjectively colored, recollection of the initial ultimatum game …

Bonus payments and reference point violations

A Ockenfels, D Sliwka, P Werner - Management Science, 2015 - pubsonline.informs.org
We investigate how bonus payments affect the satisfaction and performance of managers in
a large multinational company. We find that falling behind a natural reference standard for a …

On the escalation and de-escalation of conflict

JA Lacomba, F Lagos, E Reuben… - Games and Economic …, 2014 - Elsevier
We introduce three extensions of the Hirshleifer–Skaperdas conflict game to study
experimentally the effects of post-conflict behavior and repeated interaction on the allocation …

The effect of stake size in experimental bargaining and distribution games: A survey

E Karagözoğlu, ÜB Urhan - Group Decision and Negotiation, 2017 - Springer
We review the literature on bargaining and distribution experiments to investigate whether
changes in stake size have significant effects on behaviour in laboratory/field settings. We …

Unobserved-offers bargaining

A Wolitzky - American Economic Review, 2023 - aeaweb.org
I study ultimatum bargaining with imperfectly observed offers. Imperfectly observed offers
must be rejected with positive probability, even when the players' preferences are common …

Strategic risk and response time across games

P Brañas-Garza, D Meloso, L Miller - International Journal of Game Theory, 2017 - Springer
Experimental data for two types of bargaining games are used to study the role of strategic
risk in the decision making process that takes place when subjects play a game only once …

Will you accept without knowing what? The Yes-No game in the newspaper and in the lab

W Güth, O Kirchkamp - Experimental Economics, 2012 - Springer
In this paper we compare behaviour in a newspaper experiment with behaviour in the
laboratory. Our workhorse is the Yes-No game. Unlike in ultimatum games responders of the …

Purely procedural preferences-beyond procedural equity and reciprocity

N Chlaß, W Güth, T Miettinen - European Journal of Political Economy, 2019 - Elsevier
We conduct experiments in which parties face a pair of two-player pie-splitting procedures.
Parties submit their strategy in each, their beliefs about their opponent's choices, and are …

Does laboratory trading mirror behavior in real world markets? Fair bargaining and competitive bidding on eBay

GE Bolton, A Ockenfels - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014 - Elsevier
Laboratory market experiments observe a sharp dichotomy between (selfish) competitive
behavior and fair-minded social behavior depending on competitive conditions. While the …

Lying about the price? Ultimatum bargaining with messages and imperfectly observed offers

N Anbarcı, N Feltovich, MY Gürdal - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2015 - Elsevier
We introduce the taxicab game, related to the ultimatum game and Gehrig et al.'s (2007)
yes/no game. The proposer makes an offer, and simultaneously sends a cheap talk …