Citation:
Levy, S. H., & Zohar, A., . (1997). Efficiency Does Not Imply Immediate Agreement. Discussion Papers. presented at the 7, Econometrica 67 (1999), 909-912. Retrieved from /files/ gul.html
Abstract:
Gul (1989) introduces a non-cooperative bargaining procedure and claims that the payoffs of the resulting efficient stationary subgame perfect equilibria are close to the Shapley value of the underlying transferable utility game (when the discount factor is close to 1). We exhibit here an example showing that efficiency, even for strictly super-additive games, does not imply that all meetings end in agreement. Thus efficiency does not suffice to get Gul's result.