We augment the standard cartel formation game from non-cooperative coalition theory, often applied in the context of … international environmental agreements on climate change, with the possibility that singletons support coalition formation without … becoming coalition members themselves. Rather, their support takes the form of a monetary transfer to the coalition, which …

coalition theory, we find that the potential benefits of water trade may not be sufficient to make all agents in the river …

Simple games in partition function form are used to model voting situations where a coalition being winning or losing … might depend on the way players outside that coalition organize themselves. Such a game is called a plurality voting game if … in every partition there is at least one winning coalition. In the present paper, we introduce a power index for this …