models of coalition formation:• Fallback (FB): Players seek coalition partners by descending lower and lower in their … preference rankings until a majority coalition forms.• Build-Up (BU): Similar to FB, except that when nonmajority subcoalitions … convergence process.FB better reflects the unconstrained, or nonmyopic, possibilities of coalition formation, whereas BU - because …

agents. The coalition with the greatest power wins the resource and divides it among its members via proportional sharing. We … by the coalition formation model with farsighted agents. …

We model club formation as a non-cooperative game of coalition formation and surplus division. We show how social norms …

class of efficient and coalition strategy-proof allocation functions. In the former class, requiring equal treatment of …

pessimistic conclusions from the theory: only few players form a coalition when the institution prescribes the full …, both along the extensive and intensive margin when coalition members can each suggest a minimum contribution level with the …

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 …

implies that there is a coalition containing all but one individual that cannot force x to be socially ranked above y for at …