bargaining solution, for games where the worth of all pairwise coalition is less than a third of the grand coalition value; the … Shapley value, for games where the sum of the value created by all pairwise coalitions is greater than the grand coalition … value; or the nucleolus, for games where only the 'natural coalition' among two 'natural partners' creates significant value …

multiple majority coalitions (pivotality) or from the relative vote share the agent contributes to a coalition (proportionality …). We distinguish between coalitional commitment, where parties defer distributive bargaining when forming a coalition, and … allocative commitment, where allocations are determined at the point of coalition formation. We show how the timing of commitment …

coalition formation. It allows to make an explicit distinction between within-group and outside-group deviation options. This … the bargaining set containing a minimal winning coalition are characterized. Furthermore, it is shown that the bargaining … set of any homogeneous weighted majority game contains an outcome for which the underlying coalition structure consists of …

This chapter surveys a sizable and growing literature on coalition formation. We refer to theories in which one or more … payoffs at each date according to the coalition structure prevailing at the time. We use this model to nest two broad … approaches to coalition formation, one based on cooperative game theory, the other based on noncooperative bargaining. Three …