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TY - JOUR
T1 - The partnered core of a game with side payments
AU - Reny, P.J.
AU - Winter, E.
AU - Wooders, M.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - An outcome of a game is partnered if there are no asymmetric dependencies between any two players. For a cooperative game, a payoff is in the partnered core of the game if it is partnered, feasible and cannot be improved upon by any coalition of players. We show that the relative interior of the core of a game with side payments is contained in the partnered core. For quasi-strictly convex games the partnered core coincides with the relative interior of the core. When there are no more than three partnerships, the sums of the payoffs to partnerships are constant across all core payoffs. When there are no more than three players, the partnered core satisfies additional properties. We also illustrate our main result for coalition structure games. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.
AB - An outcome of a game is partnered if there are no asymmetric dependencies between any two players. For a cooperative game, a payoff is in the partnered core of the game if it is partnered, feasible and cannot be improved upon by any coalition of players. We show that the relative interior of the core of a game with side payments is contained in the partnered core. For quasi-strictly convex games the partnered core coincides with the relative interior of the core. When there are no more than three partnerships, the sums of the payoffs to partnerships are constant across all core payoffs. When there are no more than three players, the partnered core satisfies additional properties. We also illustrate our main result for coalition structure games. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.
KW - Game Theory
KW - Cooperative Game
KW - Coalition Formation
KW - Coalition Structure
KW - Relative Interior
U2 - 10.1007/s00355-012-0651-9
DO - 10.1007/s00355-012-0651-9
M3 - Journal article
VL - 39
SP - 521
EP - 536
JO - Social Choice and Welfare
JF - Social Choice and Welfare
SN - 0176-1714
IS - 2-3
ER -