Recently, I stumbled into research on a solution concept for cooperative games that was completely unknown to me: The Gately Value. This solution concept was introduced by Gately (1974) for a particular limited set of cost problems. These cost problems can be transcribed as cooperative games and Gately proposed an innovative solution method to allocate…
Category: Game theory
Surveying the literature on network formation under mutual consent
I just posted a survey on game-theoretic methods of understanding network formation under the hypothesis of mutual consent in link formation. The introduction of consent in link formation imposes a coordination problem in the network formation process. This survey explores the conclusions from this theory and the various methodologies to avoid the main pitfalls.The main…
New paper on partial cooperation
I just added a new working paper on partial cooperation in non-cooperative games on the economic theory page. It addresses how to consider a group of decision makers to coordinate certain strategic actions, while all other actions remain purely non-cooperative. The paper generalises the existing contributions to this partial cooperation problem to include more complex…
Game theory can only get Greece so far in its fight with Germany
A second article in The Conversation addresses how game theory can help us understand the plight of Greece in its relationship with the European Union.