Title
Two-Player Preplay Negotiation Games With Conditional Offers
Abstract
We consider an extension of strategic normal form games with a phase before the actual play of the game, where players can make binding offers for transfer of utilities to other players after the play of the game, contingent on the recipient playing the strategy indicated in the offer. Such offers transform the payoff matrix of the original game but preserve its noncooperative nature. The type of offers we focus on here are conditional on a suggested matching offer of the same kind made in return by the receiver. Players can exchange a series of such offers, thus engaging in a bargaining process before a strategic normal form game is played. In this paper, we study and analyze solution concepts for two-player normal form games with such preplay negotiation phase, under several assumptions for the bargaining power of the players, as well as the value of time for the players in such negotiations. We obtain results describing the possible solutions of such bargaining games and analyze the degrees of efficiency and fairness that can be achieved in such negotiation process. We show the similarities and the differences with a variety of frameworks in the literature of bargaining games and games with a preplay phase.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1142/S0219198915500176
INTERNATIONAL GAME THEORY REVIEW
Keywords
Field
DocType
Noncooperative games, preplay negotiations, bargaining, fairness and efficiency
Simultaneous game,Combinatorial game theory,Mathematical economics,Economics,Game mechanics,Microeconomics,Repeated game,Game theory,Normal-form game,Sequential game,Non-cooperative game
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
1
0219-1989
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Valentin Goranko1124597.90
Paolo Turrini212423.17