behavior. Specifically, we focus on comparing communication games with messages stating an intention versus a request. Our …This paper investigates how different message structures impact communication strategy as well as sender and receiver … contributing to the differences in games where messages lack the self-committing property. …

instability. We introduce two budget allocation rules, both borrowed from the cooperative games literature: the balanced …

through cooperative games with rules defined directly from the problem, either through algorithms for computing a minimal tree …

collectively suboptimal outcomes. Communication has been found to alleviate the dilemma and stimulate cooperation in these … make communication effective, is still incomplete. Previous research relies on ex post methods, i.e. after conducting an … experiment researchers analyse what information was shared during the communication phase. By nature, this ex post categorization …

In this note, we apply weighted hierarchical games of cooperative game theory to the problem of optimal firm size of …

An extension of the Shapley value for games in partition function form is proposed in the paper. We introduce a version … the system of axioms provided by Shapley (A value for n-Person games. In: Kuhn H, Tucker A (eds) Contributions to the … theory of games II. Princeton University Press, Princeton, pp 307317, 1953) to characterize our value. In addition, we …

On several classes of n-person NTU games that have at least one Shapley NTU value, Aumann characterized this solution …, provided that the class of games is not further restricted. Moreover, we present an example of a solution that satisfies the … first five axioms and violates IIA for two-person NTU games (N, V ) with uniformly p-smooth V(N). …