eprintid: 14439 rev_number: 32 eprint_status: archive userid: 600 dir: disk0/00/01/44/39 datestamp: 2009-07-09 10:44:34 lastmod: 2015-07-23 09:36:17 status_changed: 2009-07-09 10:44:34 type: working_paper metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Binmore, K. creators_name: Swierzbinski, J. creators_name: Tomlinson, C. creators_id: KGBIN82 creators_id: JESWI60 creators_id: title: An experimental test of Rubinstein's bargaining model ispublished: pub subjects: 12000 subjects: 13200 divisions: F24 abstract: This paper offers an experimental test of a version of Rubinstein’s bargaining model in which the players’ discount factors are unequal. We find that learning, rationality, and fairness are all significant in determining the outcome. In particular, we find that a model of myopic optimization over time predicts the sign of deviations in the opening proposal from the final undiscounted agreement in the previous period rather well. To explain the amplitude of the deviations, we then successfully fit a perturbed version of the model of myopic adjustment to the data that allows for a bias toward refusing inequitable offers. date: 2007-06 publisher: ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution official_url: http://else.econ.ucl.ac.uk/newweb/papers.php#2007 vfaculties: VSHS oa_status: green language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green lyricists_name: Binmore, K lyricists_name: Swierzbinski, J lyricists_id: KGBIN82 lyricists_id: JESWI60 full_text_status: public series: ELSE Working Papers number: 260 place_of_pub: London, UK citation: Binmore, K.; Swierzbinski, J.; Tomlinson, C.; (2007) An experimental test of Rubinstein's bargaining model. (ELSE Working Papers 260). ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution: London, UK. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/14439/1/14439.pdf