EGALITARIAN SOLUTIONS AND UNCERTAIN DISAGREEMENT POINTS

We consider bargaining problems with uncertain disagreement points. We search for solutions providing agents the incentive to reach agreements before the uncertainty is resolved. We identify the weighted Egalitarian solutions as being the only ones in the family of 'directional solutions' characterized in an earlier paper [Chun and Thomson (1987)] to satisfy three alternative lists of complementary conditions. We also show that on the class of coalitional form games, the Kalai-Samet (1985) extension of the Egalitarian solutions does not provide this incentive for early agreement. © 1990.