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Sufficient conditions for the existence of stable sets of cooperative games

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  • Naoki Matsumoto

    (Keio University)

  • Masaki Minegishi

    (Seikei University)

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In 1944, von Neumann and Morgenstern introduced a stable set of $n$-person cooperative games in characteristic function form, with transferable utility (called TU-games for short), which is the first solution concept for cooperative games with at least three players. It is known that every $n$-person game has a stable set if $n in {3,4}$. On the other hand, Lucas constructed a 10-person TU-game which has no stable set. However, for $5 leq n leq 9$, it is not known whether every $n$-person TU-game has a stable set. In this paper, we show two sufficient conditions for an $n$-person TU-game to have a stable set for any $ngeq 5$.

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  • Naoki Matsumoto & Masaki Minegishi, 2020. "Sufficient conditions for the existence of stable sets of cooperative games," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 40(3), pages 1958-1962.
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    Cooperative game; TU-game; Stable set.;
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