TY  - GEN
KW  - Majority Rule; Unanimity Rule; Legislative Bargaining
AV  - public
ID  - heidok16597
N2  - We conduct experiments to investigate the effects of different majority requirements on bargaining outcomes in small and large groups. In particular, we use a Baron-Ferejohn protocol and investigate the effects of decision rules on delay (number of bargaining rounds needed to reach
agreement) and measures of "fairness" (inclusiveness of coalitions, equality of the distribution within a coalition). We find that larger groups and unanimity rule are associated with significantly larger decision making costs in the sense that first round proposals more often fail, leading to more costly delay. The higher rate of failure under unanimity rule and in large groups is a combination of three facts: (1) in these conditions, a larger number of individuals must agree, (2) an important fraction of individuals reject offers below the equal share, and (3) proposers demand more (relative to the equal share) in large groups.
T3  - Discussion Paper Series / University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
TI  - Group size and decision rules in legislative bargaining
EP  - 36
Y1  - 2014/03//
UR  - https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/16597/
A1  - Miller , Luis 
A1  - Vanberg, Christoph
ER  -