Balanced externalities and the Shapley value

Ben McQuillin; Robert Sugden

doi:10.1016/j.geb.2018.03.006

Balanced externalities and the Shapley value

Ben McQuillin, Robert Sugden

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Abstract

We characterize the Shapley value using (together with standard conditions of efficiency and equal gains in two-player games) a condition of ‘undominated merge-externalities’. Similar to the well-known ‘balanced contributions’ characterization, our characterization corresponds intuitively to ‘threat points’ present in bargaining. It derives from the observation that all semivalues satisfy ‘balanced merge-externalities’. Our characterization is applicable to useful, narrow sub-classes of games (including monotonic simple games), and also extends naturally to encompass games in partition function form.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	81-92
Number of pages	12
Journal	Games and Economic Behavior
Volume	108
Early online date	28 Mar 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2018.03.006
Publication status	Published - 28 Mar 2018

Keywords

Shapley value
Balanced contributions
Merge-externalities
Semivalues
Coalitional bargaining

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Ben Mcquillin
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- School of Economics - Lecturer in Economics
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Robert Sugden
- R.Sugdenuea.acuk
- School of Economics - Professor of Economics
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- Centre for Competition Policy - Member
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- Economic Theory - Member
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Starmer, C., Turocy, T., Barr, A., Brown, G., Chater, N., Cubitt, R., Fatas, E., Gathergood, J., Gosling, S., Hargreaves-Heap, S., Lomes, G., MacKay, R., Poulsen, A., Read, D., Stewart, N., Sugden, R. & Zizzo, D.
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