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Essay in Cooperative Games

In Honor of Guillermo Owen

Part of the book series: Theory and Decision Library C (TDLC, volume 36)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. The Dawnings

    1. The Coming of Game Theory

      • Gianfranco Gambarelli, Guillermo Owen
      Pages 1-18
  3. Coalition Formation

    1. Encouraging a Coalition Formation

      • Michael Maschler
      Pages 25-34
  4. Values

    1. The P-Value for Cost Sharing in Minimum Cost Spanning Tree Situations

      • Stefano Moretti, Rodica Branzei, Henk Norde, Stef Tijs
      Pages 47-61
    2. A Unified Approach to the Myerson Value and the Position Value

      • Daniel Gómez, Enrique González-Arangüena, Conrado Manuel, Guillermo Owen, Monica del Pozo
      Pages 63-76
  5. Power Indices

    1. α-Decisiveness in Simple Games

      • Francesc Carreras
      Pages 77-91
    2. Monotonicity of Power and Power Measures

      • Manfred J. Holler, Stefan Napel
      Pages 93-111
    3. On the Meaning of Owen—Banzhaf Coalitional Value in Voting Situations

      • Annick Laruelle, Federico Valenciano
      Pages 113-123
  6. Dynamic Games

    1. The Dynamic Stability of Coalitionist Behaviour for Two-Strategy Bimatrix Games

      • Ross Cressman, József Garay, Antonino Scarelli, Zoltán Varga
      Pages 141-152
    2. Dynamic Coalition Formation in the Apex Game

      • Emiko Fukuda, Shigeo Muto
      Pages 153-163
    3. How Many People Can Be Controlled in a Group Pursuit Game

      • Yaroslavna Pankratova, Svetlana Tarashnina
      Pages 165-181
  7. Applications

    1. Takeover Prices and Portfolio Theory

      • Gianfranco Gambarelli, Serena Pesce
      Pages 193-203
    2. On the Owen Set of Transportation Situations

      • Natividad Llorca, Elisenda Molina, Manuel A. Pulido, Joaquín Sánchez-Soriano
      Pages 215-228
    3. The Lovász Extension of Market Games

      • Encarnación Algaba, Jesús Mario Bilbao, Julio Rodrigo Fernández, Andrés Jiménez
      Pages 229-238
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 239-240

About this book

Essays on Cooperative Games collates selected contributions on Cooperative Games. The papers cover both theoretical aspects (Coalition Formation, Values, Simple Games and Dynamic Games) and applied aspects (in Finance, Production, Transportation and Market Games). A contribution on Minimax Theorem (by Ken Binmore) and a brief history of early Game Theory (by Gianfranco Gambarelli and Guillermo Owen) are also enclosed.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Bergamo, Italy

    Gianfranco Gambarelli

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