Prosperity properties of TU-games

Prosperity properties of TU-games

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Article ID: iaor20001689
Country: Germany
Volume: 28
Issue: 2
Start Page Number: 211
End Page Number: 227
Publication Date: Jan 1999
Journal: International Journal of Game Theory
Authors: , ,
Abstract:

An important open problem in the theory of TU-games is to determine whether a game has a stable core. This seems to be a rather difficult combinatorial problem. There are many sufficient conditions for core-stability. Convexity is probably the best known of these properties. Other properties implying stability of the core are subconvexity and largeness of the core (two properties introduced by Sharkey) and a property that we have baptized ‘extendability’ and is introduced by Kikuta and Shapley. These last three properties have a feature in common: if we start with an arbitrary TU-game and increase only the value of the grand coalition, these properties arise at some moment and are kept if we go on with increasing the value of the grand coalition. We call such properties prosperity properties. In this paper we investigate the relations between several prosperity properties, and their relation with core-stability. By counter examples we show that all the prosperity properties we consider are different.

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