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Haake, Claus-Jochen; Kashiwada, Akemi; Su, Francis Edward - 2005

Every weighted tree corresponds naturally to a cooperative game that we call a tree game; it assigns to each subset of leaves the sum of the weights of the minimal subtree spanned by those leaves. In the context of phylogenetic trees, the leaves are species and this assignment captures the...

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Stable coalition structures in simple games with veto control

Çiftçi, Baris; Dimitrov, Dinko - 2006

In this paper we study hedonic coalition formation games in which players' preferences over coalitions are induced by a semi-value of a monotonic simple game with veto control. We consider partitions of the player set in which the winning coalition contains the union of all minimal winning...

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Coalition formation in the Airport Problem

Farrokhi, Mahmoud - 2009

We have studied the incentives of forming coalitions in the Airport Problem. It has shown that in this class of games, if coalitions form freely, the Shapley value does not lead to the formation of grand or coalitions with many players. Just a coalition with a few number of players forms to act...

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Formal Methods of Value Sharing in Supply Chains

Kemahlioglu Ziya, Eda - 2004

We consider a decentralized, two-echelon supply chain where the upper echelon --the supplier-- bears the inventory risk. To service the retailers, the supplier either keeps inventory reserved for each of her customers or else pools inventory to share among her customers. The common insight...

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The Market for Internet Services as a Tiebout-Economy: An Application of the Shapley Value to Pricing of Internet Services

McDonald, Stuart - 2001

This paper develops an approach for valuing Internet Service Providers (ISPs). The viewpoint is taken that once access to the Internet is obtained it can then be characterized by non-rivalrous consumption and non-exhaustibility. However, the quality of access is affected by the capacity of the...

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An Equilibrium Model of Rare Event Premia

Liu, Jun; Pan, Jun; Wang, Tan - 2002

In this paper, we study the asset pricing implication of imprecise knowledge about rare events. Modeling rare events as jumps in the aggregate endowment, we explicitly solve the equilibrium asset prices in a pure-exchange economy with a representative agent who is averse not only to risk but...

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Sectoral collective agreements: remuneration straitjackets for German workplaces?

Allen, Matthew; Tuselmann, Heinz; El-Said, Hamed; … - 2007

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in Personnel Review, published by and copyright Emerald.

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The bargaining system and performance: a comparison of 18 OECD countries

Traxler, F.; Kittel, B.E.A. - 2000

Theoretical reasoning disagrees about what type of bargaining system performs best. We have tested the explanatory power of three competing hypotheses: neoliberalism, coporatism and the hump-shape hypothesis. All of these hypotheses lack empirical support due to two main shortcomings. First,...

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Small and medium establishments and the new federal workplace relations system

Lyons, Michael F.; Mortimer, D. E.; Whiting, Elizabeth; … - University of Western Sydney; University of Western Sydney; … - 2007

According to the Howard government and some 'small business' organisations, the changes made to Australian industrial relations arrangements by the 2005 'Work Choices' Act will be of particular importance to small and medium sized establishments (SMEs). Specifically, the dilution of the...

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Forcing German managers to focus on productivity

Klikauer, Thomas - University of Western Sydney; College of Business; … - 2005

Purpose ? Aims to test Walton and McKersie?s theory on labour negotiations, specifically in the case of German car … production. While German managers act at an enterprise level, a structural force has been responsible for the success of Germany … structural divisions between intra-enterprise level arrangements and extra-enterprise level collective bargaining at a conceptual …

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