We study group formation by heterogeneous players when players’ preferences are dictated by status-seeking. Status can be intrinsic or associative. Considering these two types of status as either complements or substitutes results in non-emptiness of the core of the corresponding games and...

In a two-sided coalitional matching problem agents on each side of the market simultaneously form coalitions which then are matched to coalitions from the other market side. We assume that each agent has preferences over groups on his own market side and over groups on the opposite market side....

We consider three-sided coalition formation problems when each agent is concerned about his local status as measured by his relative rank position within the group of his own type and about his global status as measured by the weighted sum of the average rankings of the other types of groups. We...