Minimum cost spanning tree games and spillover stability

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 73 - Trang 441-451 - 2011
Ruud Hendrickx1, Jacco Thijssen2, Peter Borm1
1Center and Department of Econometrics and Operations Research, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2Department of Economics & Related Studies, University of York, York, UK

Tóm tắt

This article discusses interactive minimum cost spanning tree problems and argues that the standard approach of using a transferable utility game to come up with a fair allocation of the total costs has some flaws. A new model of spillover games is presented, in which each player’s decision whether or not to cooperate is properly taken into account.

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