coalition groups with and without side payments. Overall, coalition groups tend to perform well for the members of the coalition …

disciplines, viz., groups, norms and sanctions. Secondly, it must be couched in a language familiar to the economics profession …-Classical utility) and the utility the he derives from being a member, viz., access to group’s collective good. As a member, he commits … to support the procurement of the group’s collective good and submits to a system of norms and to the corresponding self …

decision; (2) groups ignore the decision rule of their opponents and typically view other groups as if they were single agents …