Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Driesen Bram 
Author-Name: Perea Andrés 
Author-Name: Peters Hans 
Author-workplace-name: METEOR
Title: Alternating offers bargaining with loss aversion
Abstract: The Rubinstein alternating offers bargaining game is reconsidered under the assumption that each player is loss averse and the associated reference point is equal to the highest turned down offer of the opponent in the past. This makes the payoffs and therefore potential equilibrium strategies dependent on the history of play. A subgame perfect equilibrium is constructed, in which the strategies depend on the history of play throughthe current reference points. It is shown that this equilibrium is unique under some assumptions that it shares with the equilibrium in the classical model: immediate acceptance of equilibrium offers, indifference between acceptance and rejection of such offers, and strategies depending only on the current reference points. It is also shown that in this equilibrium loss aversion is a disadvantage. Moreover, a relation with asymmetric Nashbargaining is established, where a player’s bargaining power is negatively related to own loss aversion and positively to the opponent’s loss aversion.
Keywords: mathematical economics; 
Series: Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 2009
Number: 001
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Handle: RePEc:unm:umamet:2009001