Cooperative Games Arising from Information Sharing Situations

Branzei, Rodica; Tijs, Stef H.; Timmer, Judith

doi:10.2139/ssrn.247672

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Cooperative Games Arising from Information Sharing Situations

CentER Discussion Paper No. 2000-42

11 Pages Posted: 5 Dec 2000

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Rodica Branzei

'A.l. Cuza' University of Iasi, Romania - Faculty of Computer Sciences

Stef H. Tijs

Tilburg University - Center For Economic Research; Tilburg University - Department of Econometrics & Operations Research; Università degli Studi di Genova - Dipartimento di Matematica

Judith Timmer

University of Twente - Department of Applied Mathematics

Date Written: April 2000

Abstract

Relations are established between information sharing (IS) situations and IS?games on one hand and information collecting (IC) situations and IC?games on the other hand. It is shown that IC?games can be obtained as convex combinations of so-called local games. Properties are described which IC?games possess if all related local games have the respective properties. Special attention is paid to the classes of convex IC?games and of k?concave IC?games. This last class turns out to consist of total big boss games. For the class of total big boss games a new solution concept is introduced: bi?monotonic allocation schemes.

Keywords: cooperative games, information, big boss games, bi-monotonic allocation scheme

JEL Classification: C71, D89

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Branzei, Rodica and Tijs, Stef H. and Timmer, Judith, Cooperative Games Arising from Information Sharing Situations (April 2000). CentER Discussion Paper No. 2000-42, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=247672 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.247672