Author : Carlo Carraro
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781009888
Some of the specific topics addressed include: advances in the theory of large co-operative games; non co-operative models of coalition formation; a survey of the partition function in the formation of coalitions; far-sightedness in coalition formation; coalition stability; coalition formation in industrialized economics, trade theory, environmental economics and public finance.
Author : Ad M.A. Van Deemen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 27,52 MB
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1475725787
Coalition Formation and Social Choice provides a unified and comprehensive study of coalition formation and collective decision-making in committees. It discusses the main existing theories including the size principle, conflict of interest theory, dominant player theory, policy distance theory and power excess theory. In addition, the book offers new theories of coalition formation in which the endogenous formation of preferences for coalitions is basic. Both simple game theory and social choice theory are extensively applied in the treatment of the theories. This combined application not only leads to new theories but also offers a new and fresh perspective on coalition formation and collective decision-making in committees. The book covers the fundamental concepts and results of social choice theory including Arrow's Impossibility Theorem. Furthermore, it gives a coherent treatment of the theory of simple games. Besides more traditional topics in simple game theory like power indices, it also introduces new aspects of simple games such as the Chow parameter, the Chow vector and the notion of similar games.
Author : Debraj Ray
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 31,29 MB
Release : 2007-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 019920795X
Drawing upon and extending his inaugural Lipsey Lectures, Debraj Ray looks at coalition formation from the perspective of game theory. Ray brings together developments in both cooperative and noncooperative game theory to study the analytics of coalition formation and binding agreements.
Author : Robin Phinney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 26,14 MB
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107170362
This book develops a new theory of collaborative lobbying and influence to explain how antipoverty advocates gain influence in American social policymaking.
Author : Gary E. Bolton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 45,82 MB
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199730857
Individuals, groups, and societies all experience and resolve conflict. In this handbook, scholars from multiple disciplines offer perspectives on the current state and future challenges in negotiation and conflict resolution. This confluence of research perspectives will identify further synergies and advances in our understanding of conflict resolution.
Author : H.A.M. Wilke
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 23,44 MB
Release : 2000-04-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0080866786
A comprehensive view of coalition formation is presented here. Each of the chapters gives a summary of theories and research findings in a specific field of interest, at various levels of human and primate organisation.
Author : Alvin E. Roth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 22,72 MB
Release : 1988-10-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107717213
Composed in honour of the sixty-fifth birthday of Lloyd Shapley, this volume makes accessible the large body of work that has grown out of Shapley's seminal 1953 paper. Each of the twenty essays concerns some aspect of the Shapley value. Three of the chapters are reprints of the 'ancestral' papers: Chapter 2 is Shapley's original 1953 paper defining the value; Chapter 3 is the 1954 paper by Shapley and Shubik applying the value to voting models; and chapter 19 is Shapley's 1969 paper defining a value for games without transferable utility. The other seventeen chapters were contributed especially for this volume. The first chapter introduces the subject and the other essays in the volume, and contains a brief account of a few of Shapley's other major contributions to game theory. The other chapters cover the reformulations, interpretations and generalizations that have been inspired by the Shapley value, and its applications to the study of coalition formulation, to the organization of large markets, to problems of cost allocation, and to the study of games in which utility is not transferable.
Author : Avner Greif
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 38,92 MB
Release : 2006-01-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521480444
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Author : Gabrielle Demange
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 45,94 MB
Release : 2005-01-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521842716
Broad and diverse ranges of activities are conducted within and by organized groups of individuals, including political, economic and social activities. These activities have become a subject of intense interest in economics and game theory. Some of the topics investigated in this 2005 collection are models of networks of power and privilege, trade networks, co-authorship networks, buyer-seller networks with differentiated products, and networks of medical innovation and the adaptation of new information. Other topics are social norms on punctuality, clubs and the provision of club goods and public goods, research and development and collusive alliances among corporations, and international alliances and trading agreements. While relatively recent, the literature on game theoretic studies of group formation in economics is already vast. This volume provides an introduction to this important literature on game-theoretic treatments of situations with networks, clubs, and coalitions, including some applications.
Author : Matthew O. Jackson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 18,95 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 140083399X
Networks of relationships help determine the careers that people choose, the jobs they obtain, the products they buy, and how they vote. The many aspects of our lives that are governed by social networks make it critical to understand how they impact behavior, which network structures are likely to emerge in a society, and why we organize ourselves as we do. In Social and Economic Networks, Matthew Jackson offers a comprehensive introduction to social and economic networks, drawing on the latest findings in economics, sociology, computer science, physics, and mathematics. He provides empirical background on networks and the regularities that they exhibit, and discusses random graph-based models and strategic models of network formation. He helps readers to understand behavior in networked societies, with a detailed analysis of learning and diffusion in networks, decision making by individuals who are influenced by their social neighbors, game theory and markets on networks, and a host of related subjects. Jackson also describes the varied statistical and modeling techniques used to analyze social networks. Each chapter includes exercises to aid students in their analysis of how networks function. This book is an indispensable resource for students and researchers in economics, mathematics, physics, sociology, and business.
