A Note on the Impossibility of a Satisfactory Concept of Stability for Coalition Formation Games
Barberà, Salvador 1946-

(Department of Economics and Economic History. Center for the study of the Organizations and Decisions in Economics (CODE). Research Group Coalitions, Incentives, and Networks in Collective Choices)
Gerber, Anke 
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
| Date: |
2007 |
| Abstract: |
We show that no solution to coalition formation games can satisfy a set of axioms that we propose as reasonable. Our result points out that "solutions" to the coalition formation cannot be interpreted as "resting points" in the way stable coalition structures are usually interpreted. |
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| Language: |
Anglès |
| Document: |
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| Subject: |
Coalition formation ;
Hedonic game ;
Stability |
| Published in: |
Economics letters, Vol. 95, Num. 1 (2007) , p. 85-90, ISSN 0165-1765 |
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2006.09.018
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