In this paper, we introduce a new class of values for cooperative games, named procedural surplus values, which is determined by procedures of sharing marginal surplus. Considering that the level of solidarity among players in a coalition may be related to the size of the coalition, this class...

In this paper, we consider the role of production externalities in the task assignment problem. Milgrom and Roberts (1992) suggest that complementarities available when agents are assigned to diverse tasks are necessary to overcome distortions in effort allocations caused by an inability to fine...

In this paper, we introduce the cohesive players and a related axiom called equal surplus of cohesive players. On this basis, we study the subclass of efficient, symmetric, and linear (ESL) values satisfying equal surplus of cohesive players. We first give an analytical formula and also propose...

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