The evolutionary role of toughness in bargaining

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 117-134

  Heifetz, Aviad ^a   Segev, Ella ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Bargaining; Endowment effect; Evolution of preferences; Payoff monotonic dynamics; Self serving bias; Toughness

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344605659     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2003.11.001     Document Type: Article

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