and monotonic on the contracts. If the grand coalition is not efficient we show that bargaining delays arise in positive …-externality games. Otherwise, if the grand coalition is efficient, there are no bargaining delays and convergence to the grand coalition …

with respect to both emissions and membership. In that encompassing IEA game the size of the coalition is increasing in the … values, the grand coalition may or may not be attained if one of the moral parameter increases and tends towards one. …

motivated citizen groups form parties, voting occurs and governments are formed. We study the coalition governments that emerge … coalition formation game affects the incentives for party formation. In particular, we show that when the rents from office are …

players and spillovers to non-members. I introduce a sharing rule for coalition payoffs, called optimal sharing which … stabilises all cartels that are possibly stable under any rule. Under optimal sharing the grand coalition is the unique stable …

in favor of another feasible alternative by any coalition. We use this test of coalitional voting in an incomplete … among members of a coalition is endogenous. Our results lend support to the credible core of Dutta and Vohra (2003) and the …

our model and experiments, introducing a coalition formation stage prior to making a contribution decision enables sorting …

coalition to coordinate provision. Compared with games with only goods (or only bads) we find larger coalitions in equilibrium …. Specifically, we analyze a game with quadratic benefit- and cost functions and we find the grand coalition to be stable except for … situations where agents have identical or almost identical characteristics. The main driving force of coalition stability is that …

This paper extends the theory of endogenous coalition formation, with complete information and transferable utility, to …