Article ID: | iaor19992508 |
Country: | Germany |
Volume: | 27 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 211 |
End Page Number: | 217 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1998 |
Journal: | International Journal of Game Theory |
Authors: | Tijs S., Meca-Martnez A., Snchez-Soriano J., Garca-Jurando I. |
This paper deals with a specific aspect of the problem of coalition formation in a situation described by a TU-game. First, we define a very simple normal form game which models the process of coalition formation. To define the payoff functions of the players we use an allocation rule for TU-games. The main objective of this paper is to ascertain what conditions of the allocation rule lead to the grand coalition being a strong equilibrium of the normal form game, when the original TU-game is convex.