This paper introduces a new class of interactive cooperative purchasing situations and provides an explicit alternative characterization of the nucleolus of cooperative games, which offers an alternative to Kohlberg (1971). In our cooperative purchasing situation, the unit price of a commodity...

Over the last decades, companies' average profit margins have been decreasing and as a result efficiency of transportation processes has become critical. To cut down transportation costs, shippers often outsource their transportation activities to a Logistics Service Provider of their choice....

This paper is a reaction on Ginsburgh and Zang (2003). It reconsiders the problem where a group of museums offer a pass such that the owner can visit these museums an unlimited number of times during a fixed period of time. The problem addressed is how to share the total joint income of this...

This note provides a methodological contribution to the allocation of joint revenues obtained from passepartouts. In a passepartout system a group of service providers offers a passepartout that allows its owners the use of specified services for an unlimited number of times during a fixed...

In a resource allocation problem there is a common-pool resource, which has to be divided among agents. Each agent is characterized by a claim on this pool and an individual concave reward function on assigned resources. An assignment of resources is optimal if the total joint reward is...