A Game Theoretic Perspective On Coalition Formation

Author : Debraj Ray
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9781435633506
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Game-theoretic Perspective on Coalition Formation written by Debraj Ray and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Debraj Ray
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019920795X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Game-Theoretic Perspective on Coalition Formation written by Debraj Ray and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Andrew John Sterge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Game Theoretic Models of Coalition Formation and Power in Legislatures written by Andrew John Sterge and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Silviu Guiasu
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483154084
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coalition and Connection in Games written by Silviu Guiasu and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-18 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coalition and Connection in Games: Problems of Modern Game Theory using Methods Belonging to Systems Theory and Information Theory focuses on coalition formation and on connections occurring in games, noting the use of mathematical models in the evaluation of processes involved in games. The book first takes a look at the process of strategy in playing games in which the conditional choices of players are noted. The sequence of decisions during the playing of games and observance of the rules are emphasized. The text also ponders on the mathematical tool of game theory in which the differences in the playing of games is seen as influenced by the number of players involved. The manuscript reviews how the von Neumann-Morgenstern theory is used in measuring the conditions on how games are played. The theory points out that games with more than two players call for the introduction of concepts and an instrument in comparison with two-person zero-sum games. The text also underscores the tendency of players to obtain a large share of the payoff, whether playing by themselves or participating in coalitions. The book is a fine reference for readers interested in the analysis of game theories.

Author : Ad M.A. Van Deemen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475725787
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coalition Formation and Social Choice written by Ad M.A. Van Deemen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : James P. Kahan
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 131776918X
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theories of Coalition Formation written by James P. Kahan and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1984. In this book, the authors set forth the central ideas and results of the major theories of coalition forming behavior. These theories address situations of partial conflict of interest with the following aspects: (1) there are three or more players, (2) players may openly communicate with each other, and (3) players form coalitions by freely negotiating agreements on how to disburse the gains that result from the coalition members’ joint coordinated efforts. These models arise from the two disciplines of mathematics, in the theory of cooperative n-person games with side payments, and social psychology, in theories of small group behavior in mixed-motive situations. The goal is to explore the various solution concepts that make up this body of theory, and in particular to examine the psychological premises that underlie the various theoretical models.

Author : H.A.M. Wilke
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780080866789
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coalition Formation written by H.A.M. Wilke and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Georgios Chalkiadakis
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1608456528
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computational Aspects of Cooperative Game Theory written by Georgios Chalkiadakis and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cooperative game theory is a branch of (micro-)economics that studies the behavior of self-interested agents in strategic settings where binding agreements among agents are possible. Our aim in this book is to present a survey of work on the computational aspects of cooperative game theory. We begin by formally defining transferable utility games in characteristic function form, and introducing key solution concepts such as the core and the Shapley value. We then discuss two major issues that arise when considering such games from a computational perspective: identifying compact representations for games, and the closely related problem of efficiently computing solution concepts for games. We survey several formalisms for cooperative games that have been proposed in the literature, including, for example, cooperative games defined on networks, as well as general compact representation schemes such as MC-nets and skill games. As a detailed case study, we consider weighted voting games: a widely-used and practically important class of cooperative games that inherently have a natural compact representation. We investigate the complexity of solution concepts for such games, and generalizations of them. We briefly discuss games with non-transferable utility and partition function games. We then overview algorithms for identifying welfare-maximizing coalition structures and methods used by rational agents to form coalitions (even under uncertainty), including bargaining algorithms. We conclude by considering some developing topics, applications, and future research directions.

Author : Carlo Carraro
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781781009888
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Endogenous Formation of Economic Coalitions written by Carlo Carraro and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Gabrielle Demange
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139444415
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Group Formation in Economics written by Gabrielle Demange and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-10 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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.