Essay in Cooperative Games - In Honor of Guillermo Owen

Essays on Cooperative Games collates selected contributions on Cooperative Games. The papers cover both theoretical aspects (Coalition Formation, Values, Simple Games and Dynamic Games) and applied aspects (in Finance, Production, Transportation and Market Games). A contribution on Minimax Theorem (by Ken Binmore) and a brief history of early Game Theory (by Gianfranco Gambarelli and Guillermo Owen) are also enclosed.

Table des matières

The Dawnings.- 4. The Coming of Game Theory.- 5. Guillermo Owen's Proof of the Minimax Theorem.- Coalition Formation.- 6. Encouraging a Coalition Formation.- Values.- 7. A Comparison of Non-Transferable Utility Values.- 8. The P-Value for Cost Sharing in Minimum Cost Spanning Tree Situations.- 9. A Unified Approach to the Myerson Value and the Position Value.- Power Indices.- 10. ?-Decisiveness in Simple Games.- 11. Monotonicity of Power and Power Measures.- Applications.- 12. On the Meaning of Owen-Banzhaf Coalitional Value in Voting Situations.- 13. "Counting" Power Indices for Games with a Priori Unions.- Dynamic Games.- 14. The Dynamic Stability of Coalitionist Behaviour for Two-Strategy Bimatrix Games.- 15. Dynamic Coalition Formation in the Apex Game.- 16. How Many People Can be Controlled in a Group Pursuit Game.- Applications.- 17. Relevance of Winning Coalitions in Indirect Control of Corporations.- 18. Takeover Prices and Portfolio Theory.- 19. A Note on the Owen Set of Linear Programming Games and Nash Equilibria.- 20. On the Owen Set of Transportation Situations.- 21. The Lovász Extension of Market Games.

Résumé

Essays on Cooperative Games collates selected contributions on Cooperative Games. The papers cover both theoretical aspects (Coalition Formation, Values, Simple Games and Dynamic Games) and applied aspects (in Finance, Production, Transportation and Market Games). A contribution on Minimax Theorem (by Ken Binmore) and a brief history of early Game Theory (by Gianfranco Gambarelli and Guillermo Owen) are also enclosed.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Gianfranco Gambarelli
• Collaboration: Gianfranc Gambarelli (Editeur), Gianfranco Gambarelli (Editeur)
• Edition: Springer, Berlin
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 22.10.2010
• EAN: 9781441952608
• ISBN: 978-1-4419-5260-8
• Pages: 240
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 14 mm x 241 mm
• Poids: 388 g
• Illustrations: X, 240 p.
• Thèmes: Theory and Decision Library C; Theory and Decision Library C
• Catégories: Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Mathématiques > Autres; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Economie > Economie publique; C, Political Science, Political science & theory, Public Economics, Economics and Finance, Economic Theory, Business Taxation/Tax Law, Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences, game theory, Management science, Quantitative Economics, Public finance, Public finance & taxation, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Tax laws, Tax accounting, Business Taxation and Tax Law