Title
Marginality And Convexity In Partition Function Form Games
Abstract
In this paper an order on the set of embedded coalitions is studied in detail. This allows us to define new notions of superaddivity and convexity of games in partition function form which are compared to other proposals in the literature. The main results are two characterizations of convexity. The first one uses non-decreasing contributions to coalitions of increasing size and can thus be considered parallel to the classic result for cooperative games without externalities. The second one is based on the standard convexity of associated games without externalities that we define using a partition of the player set. Using the later result, we can conclude that some of the generalizations of the Shapley value to games in partition function form lie within the cores of specific classic games when the original game is convex.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/s00186-021-00748-8
MATHEMATICAL METHODS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Game theory, Partition function, Partial order, Marginality, Convexity
Journal
94
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1432-2994
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4