As the demand for natural resources intensifies so too the costs of further exploitation of these resources become enormous. These enormous costs in turn require the development of a given resource to be a cooperative venture among several participants, each of whom must be assured that the...

We show that the dominant punishment strategy and coalitionally dominant strategy applied to TU coalitional strategic games give directly the saddle point expression for the coalitional aggregate payoff function, which is the condition for the equivalence of the strategic cores α and β. Also,...