Hanging Together or Hanged Separately: The Strategic Power of Coalitions where Bargaining Occurs with Incomplete Information

Artikel

What is the strategic role of membership in an intergovernmental group with unanimity requirements if the group negotiates with an external player in a setting with incomplete information? Being in such a group has a strategic effect compared to negotiating as a stand-alone player and reduces the demands of the outside player. Group membership lends additional bargaining power. Negotiating as a group may also cause more inefficiencies due to bargaining failure, and this may harm also the intergovernmental group. We uncover the role of preference alignment and preference independence between members of the coalition group for equilibrium payoffs and welfare effects. In this analysis, we also distinguish between coalition groups with and without side payments. Overall, coalition groups tend to perform well for the members of the coalition group in comparison to fully decentralized negotiations, particularly if the objectives of the members of the coalition group are not always perfectly aligned.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: Journal of conflict resolution ; ISSN: 1552-8766 ; Volume: 58 ; Year: 2014 ; Issue: 5 ; Pages: 920-940 ; Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: bargaining ; incomplete information ; coalitions ; groups ; strategic bargaining power

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Konrad, Kai A. ; Cusack, Thomas R.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Sage Publications
• (wo): Thousand Oaks, CA
• (wann): 2014

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.1177/0022002713487319
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/191050
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-22064-5
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ