Multisided matching games with complementarities

International Journal of Game Theory - Tập 28 - Trang 489-509 - 1999
Katerina Sherstyuk1
1Department of Economics, Melbourne University, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia (e-mail: [email protected]), , AU

Tóm tắt

The paper considers multisided matching games with transfereable utility using the approach of cooperative game theory. Stable matchings are shown to exist when characteristic functions are supermodular, i.e., agents' abilities to contribute to the value of a coalition are complementary across types. We analyze the structure of the core of supermodular matching games and suggest an algorithm for constructing its extreme payoff vectors.