Abstract

Alternating-offer and demand bargaining models of legislative bargaining make very different predictions in terms of both ex-ante and ex-post distribution of payoffs, as well as the role of the order of play. The experiment shows that actual bargaining behavior is not as sensitive to the different bargaining rules as the theoretical point predictions, while the comparative statics are in line with both models. We compare our results to studies attempting to distinguish between these two approaches using field data, finding strong similarities

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