This chapter surveys existing results and lists nine future areas in TU oligopoly games and
industrial cooperation or, precisely, cooperative oligopoly games with transferable utilities …

Mission-driven nonprofit organizations compete for donations through fundraising activities.
Such competition can lead to inefficient outcomes, if nonprofits impose externalities on each …

This paper presents some recent developments in the theory of coalition and network
formation. For this purpose, a few major equilibrium concepts recently introduced to model …

In cooperative games, due to computational complexity issues, deviant agents are not able
to base their behavior on the outsiders' status but have to follow certain beliefs as to how it is …

In this paper we review a number of coalitional solution concepts for the analysis of cartel
and merger stability in oligopoly. We show that, although so far the industrial organization …

This paper presents some recent developments in the theory of coalition and network
formation. For this purpose, a few major equilibrium concepts recently introduced to model …

This dissertation is devoted to non-cooperative game theory. It consists of two surveys, one
on strategic market games, another on non-cooperative coalition formation and two research …

In many strategic settings comparing the payoffs obtained by players under full cooperation
to those obtainable at a sequential (Stackelberg) equilibrium can be crucial to determine the …

In this note we study the centralization vs, decentralization issue for the management of a
given collective activity. The aim is to characterize a class of decision rules that guarantees …

We consider a class of symmetric games with externalities across coalitions and show that,
under certain regularity conditions, restricting the deviating power to majority guarantees the …