In standard coalition games, players try to form a coalition to secure a prize and a coalition agreement specifies how … of the prize often takes place after the coalition formation stage. This creates the possibility for some players to ask … strategic disadvantage: a greater voting power in forming a winning coalition is undermined by the threat of being overly …

This paper considers endogenous coalition formations and endogenous technology choices in a model of private provision … contributions by a strategic incentive to adopt lower technology to motivate coalition building by other nations, which in the end …

policy. To this end, we expand the modest coalition formation game, in which countries first decide on whether to join an … and emissions. We find that strategic delegation crowds out all efforts to increase coalition sizes by less ambitious …

coalition formation among three countries in order to examine the endogenous strategic considerations in the creation and … enlargement of international unions. Why would we observe a gradualist approach in the formation of the grand coalition even if …

coalition formation among three countries in order to examine the endogenous strategic considerations in the creation and … enlargement of international unions. Why would we observe a gradualist approach in the formation of the grand coalition even if …

distribution of cost shares that motivates some coalition of agents to separate and to block an initially given Pareto optimal … allocation which can be interpreted as the outcome of a negotiation process when all agents form a grand coalition …

repeated game setting. We show that partial tax coordination is more likely to prevail if the number of regions in a coalition …

We propose a semi-cooperative game theoretic approach to check whether a given coalition is stable in a Bayesian game …) coalitional equilibrium, describe a (cooperative) partition form game. A coalition is core-stable if the core of a suitable …

members of the coalition group for equilibrium payoffs and welfare effects. In this analysis we also distinguishing between … coalition groups with and without side payments. Overall, coalition groups tend to perform well for the members of the coalition … group in comparison to fully decentralized negotiations, particularly if the objectives of the members of the coalition …