
doi: 10.2307/2297985
Summary: Without assuming rational expectations, we examine the implications of a stationarity assumption in a standard bargaining model with one-sided incomplete information, where the seller makes an offer in each period. Instead of computing a weakly stationary equilibrium, we invoke rationalizability [see \textit{B. D. Bernheim}, Econometrica 52, 1007-1028 (1984; Zbl 0552.90098), and \textit{D. G. Pearce}, ibid. 52, 1029-1050 (1984; Zbl 0552.90097)] combined with the restriction that the buyer's acceptance rule be weakly stationary. There exists a pair of rationalizable sets of pure strategies for the seller and the buyer which are weakly stationary. We demonstrate that any initial offer from the seller induced by a strategy rationalized by a weakly stationary acceptance rule for the buyer must entail the Coase property. Our result does not presume the selection of a particular equilibrium and follows directly from the weak stationarity assumption of the buyer's acceptance rule and the rational behaviour of the players.
Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models, one-sided incomplete information, bargaining, rationalizability
Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models, one-sided incomplete information, bargaining, rationalizability
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