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The Balanced Solution for Co-operative Transferable Utility Games

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  • René van den Brink

    (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

  • René Levinsky

    (Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany)

  • Miroslav Zeleny

    (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)

Abstract

The Shapley value of a cooperative transferable utility game distributes the dividend of each coalition in the game equally among its members. Given exogenous weights for all players, the corresponding weighted Shapley value distributes the dividends proportionally to their weights. In this contribution we define the balanced solution which assigns weights to players such that the corresponding weighted Shapley value of each player is equal to her weight. We prove its existence for all monotone transferable utility games, discuss other properties of this solution, and deal with its characterization through a reduced game consistency.

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  • René van den Brink & René Levinsky & Miroslav Zeleny, 2007. "The Balanced Solution for Co-operative Transferable Utility Games," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 07-073/1, Tinbergen Institute.
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    Keywords

    Balanced solution; Proportionality; Reduced game consistency; Weighted Shapley value;
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    • C71 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Cooperative Games

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