Guia docente 2011_12 Facultad de CC. Económicas y Empresariales

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1: Transferable Utility (TU) games	The characteristic function. The imputation set.
2. Solution concepts in transferable utility games	Core. Stable sets. Kernel and prekernel. Nucleolus and prenucleolus. The Shapley value. Axiomatic caracterizations.
3. Aplications	Simple games. Power indices: Shapley-Shubik and Banzhaf. Bankruptcy problems. Airport game. Minimum cost spanning tree problems.
4. Non-Transferable Utility (NTU) games	The characteristic function. Properties. Solutions in NTU games. Bargaining problems and hyperplane games. Examples.
5. Solutions in bargaining problems	Nash solution. Kalai-Smorodinsky solution. Egalitarian solution. Axiomatic characterization.
6. Solutions in general NTU games	The core. The Harsanyi value. The Shapley lamdba-transfer value. The Maschler-Owen consistent value. Axiomatic characterization.