strategic disadvantage: a greater voting power in forming a winning coalition is undermined by the threat of being overly …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 …

Traditional power indices ignore preferences and strategic interaction. Equilibrium analysis of particular non … lingering debate about the right approach to power analysis. A unified framework that works both sides of the street is … developed here. It rests on a notion of a posteriori power which formalizes players' marginal impact to outcomes in cooperative …

countries is self-enforcing. It is shown that there always exists a rather small stable tax coalition. For some subset of the … parameter space the grand coalition may be stable as well, even if the total number of countries is large. The small stable … coalition is not very effective in mitigating the inefficiency of the non-cooperative Nash equilibrium. The ineffectiveness is …

We augment the standard cartel formation game from non-cooperative coalition theory, often applied in the context of … international environmental agreements on climate change, with the possibility that singletons support coalition formation without … becoming coalition members themselves. Rather, their support takes the form of a monetary transfer to the coalition, which …

integrated with climate dynamics, a grand climate coalition or multiple climate coalitions may form in equilibrium, but if the …

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 …