coalition is given by the sum of the valuations for all other players belonging to it. So far, non-cooperative hedonic games …

This paper establishes sufficient conditions for the existence of a stable coalition structure in the coalition … unanimity game of coalition formation, first defined by Hart and Kurz (1983) and more recently studied by Yi (1997, 2000). Our … conditions are defined on the strategic form game used to derive the payoffs the game of coalition formation. We show that if no …

We investigate the computational complexity of several decision problems in hedonic coalition formation games and … either core stability or strict core stability is under consideration, the existence problem of a stable coalition structure … stable coalition structure and of an individually stable coalition structure turn out to be NP-complete in the strong sense. …

schemes in order to influence the government’s choice on the level of provision of public goods. Using perfectly coalition …