This chapter surveys a sizable and growing literature on coalition formation. We refer to
theories in which one or more groups of agents (“coalitions”) deliberately get together to …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the noncooperative models of bargaining. John
Nash's (1950) path-breaking paper introduces the bargaining problem, and his pioneering …

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Rising powers often seek to reshape the world order, triggering confrontations with those
who seek to defend the status quo. In recent years, as international institutions have grown …

The formal theory of bargaining originated with John Nash's work in the early 1950s. In this
book we discuss two recent developments in this theory. The first uses the tool of extensive …

Coalition formation is a key topic in multiagent systems. One may prefer a coalition structure
that maximizes the sum of the values of the coalitions, but often the number of coalition …

A “Nash equilibrium in Nash bargains” has become a workhorse bargaining model in
applied analyses of bilateral oligopoly. This paper proposes a noncooperative foundation for …

The set of economic situations in which network structures play an important role is wide and
varied. For instance, personal contacts play critical roles in obtaining information about job …

First, the paper lays out the fun-damental assumptions underlying the game theoretical
analysis of international environmental problems. Second it summarises important findings …

This paper analyzes a sequential game of coalition formation when the division of the
coalitional surplus is fixed and the payoffs are defined relative to the whole coalition …