Dissolving an ambiguous partnership [Dataset]

DOI

Two partners try to dissolve a partnership that owns an asset of ambiguous value, where the value is determined ex post by a draw from an Ellsberg urn. In a within-subject experiment, subjects make decisions in three different bargaining mechanisms: unstructured bargaining, the Texas shoot-out, and a K + 1 auction. We find that the K + 1 auction is the most efficient mechanism, which is in line with theory. Free format bargaining yields a surprising number of disagreements, which are not usually observed when the partnership has a certain or risky value.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.11588/DATA/0FKLAN
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2026.107453
Metadata Access https://heidata.uni-heidelberg.de/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.11588/DATA/0FKLAN
Provenance
Creator Oechssler, Jörg ORCID logo; Roomets, Alex (ORCID: 0000-0003-4633-472X)
Publisher heiDATA
Contributor Oechssler, Jörg; heiDATA: Heidelberg Research Data Repository
Publication Year 2026
Rights CC BY 4.0; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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Contact Oechssler, Jörg (Alfred-Weber-Institute of Economics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany)
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Discipline Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture; Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture and Veterinary Medicine; Economic Theory; Economics; Life Sciences; Social Sciences; Social and Behavioural Sciences; Soil Sciences