This paper advances the idea that, in a variety of environments, it is natural to think of the solution of a (coalition form) game as an ordering of the players rather than as a division of the value of coalitions. Orderings that are characterized by an average of the desirability of one player...

Players adaptively learn how to bargain. A characteristic function describes the available surplus. The underlying bargaining game extends the Nash demand game by allowing subcoalitions to reach an agreement. Players' demands must be multiples of a money unit. We show that stochastically stable...