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Values for environments with externalities – The average approach

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  • Macho-Stadler, Inés
  • Pérez-Castrillo, David
  • Wettstein, David

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We propose the “average approach,” where the worth of a coalition is a weighted average of its worth for different partitions of the players' set, as a unifying method to extend values for characteristic function form games. Our method allows us to extend the equal division value, the equal surplus value, the consensus value, the λ-egalitarian Shapley value, and the family of least-square values. For each of the first three extensions, we also provide an axiomatic characterization of a particular value for partition function form games. And for each of the last two extensions, we find a family of values that satisfy the properties.

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  • Macho-Stadler, Inés & Pérez-Castrillo, David & Wettstein, David, 2018. "Values for environments with externalities – The average approach," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 108(C), pages 49-64.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:gamebe:v:108:y:2018:i:c:p:49-64
    DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2017.08.003
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    Externalities; Sharing the surplus; Average approach;
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    JEL classification:

    • D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
    • C71 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Cooperative Games

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