A cooperative TU game is said to posses a large core as defined by Sharkey [1982] if for every acceptable vector there … is a smaller core vector in the game. This paper is devoted to characterization(s) of largeness of the core of a subclass … [1988] because of the core structure they possess, which is the same as that of a suitably defined convex game. The main …

) located along the river. The benefit of each agent depends on the amount of water consumed by the agent. An allocation of the … water among the agents is efficient when it maximizes the total benefits. To sustain an efficient water allocation, the … agents can compensate each other by paying monetary transfers. Every water allocation and transfer schedule yields a welfare …