Games with a Permission Structure: A Survey on Generalizations and Applications

Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 2017-016/II

44 Pages Posted: 31 Jan 2017

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Rene van den Brink

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, School of Business and Economics

Date Written: January 26, 2017

Abstract

In the field of cooperative games with restricted cooperation, various restrictions on coalition formation are studied. The most studied restrictions are those that arise from restricted communication and hierarchies. This survey discusses several models of hierarchy restrictions and their relation with communication restrictions.

In the literature, there are results on game properties, Harsanyi dividends, core stability, and various solutions that generalize existing solutions for TU-games. In this survey we mainly focus on axiomatizations of the Shapley value in different models of games with a hierarchically structured player set, and their applications. Not only do these axiomatizations provide insight in the Shapley value for these models, but also by considering the types of axioms that characterize the Shapley value, we learn more about different network structures.

A central model of games with hierarchies are the games with a permission structure where players in a cooperative transferable utility game are part of a permission structure in the sense that there are players that need permission from other players before they are allowed to cooperate. This permission structure is represented by a directed graph. Generalizations of this model are, for example, games on antimatroids, and games with a local permission structure. Besides discussing these generalizations, we briefly discuss some applications, in particular auction games and hierarchically structured firms.

Keywords: Cooperative TU-game, hierarchy, permission structure, antimatroid, local permission structure, applications

JEL Classification: C71

Suggested Citation

van den Brink, Rene, Games with a Permission Structure: A Survey on Generalizations and Applications (January 26, 2017). Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 2017-016/II, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2907954 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2907954

Rene Van den Brink (Contact Author)

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, School of Business and Economics ( email )

De Boelelaan 1105
Amsterdam, 1081HV
Netherlands

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