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On bargaining sets of supplier-firm-buyer games

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  • Ata Atay

    (Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

  • Tamas Solymosi

    (Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Department of Operations Research and Actuarial Sciences, Corvinus University of Budapest)

Abstract

We study a special three-sided matching game, the so-called supplier-firm-buyer game, in which buyers (customers) and sellers (suppliers) trade indirectly through middlemen (firms). Stuart (Stuart, 1997) showed that all supplier-firm-buyer games have non-empty core. We show that for these games the core coincides with the classical bargaining set (Davis and Maschler, 1967), and also with the Mas-Colell bargaining set (Mas-Colell, 1989).

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  • Ata Atay & Tamas Solymosi, 2018. "On bargaining sets of supplier-firm-buyer games," CERS-IE WORKING PAPERS 1805, Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies.
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    Bargaining set; core; matching market; assignment game; cooperative game;
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    • C71 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Cooperative Games

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