Article ID: | iaor19972473 |
Country: | Germany |
Volume: | 26 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 45 |
End Page Number: | 50 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1997 |
Journal: | International Journal of Game Theory |
Authors: | Einy E., Shirtovitz B. |
Greenberg and Ray showed that in coalitional games with a finite set of players the core consists of those and only those payoffs that cannot be dominated using payoffs in the core of a subgame. The authors extend the definition of the dominance relation to coalitional games with an infinite set of players and show that this result may not hold in games with a countable set of players (even in convex games). But if a coalitional game with a countable set of players satisfies a mild continuity property, its core consists of those and only those payoff vectors which cannot be dominated using payoffs in the core of a subgame.