Abstract:
A set of outcomes for a TU-game in characteristic function form is dominant if it is, with respect to an outsider-independent dominance relation, accessible (or admis-sible) and closed. This outsider- independent dominance relation is restrictive in the sense that a deviating coalition cannot determine the payoffs of those coalitions that are not involved in the deviation. The minimal (for inclusion) dominant set is non-empty and for a game with a non-empty coalition structure core, the minimal dominant set returns this core.
Keywords:core; non-emptiness; indirect dominance (search for similar items in EconPapers) JEL-codes:C71 (search for similar items in EconPapers) New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-gth Date: 2002-10-03 Note: Type of Document - Postscript/PDF; prepared on PC/LaTeX; to print on Postscript; pages: 15; figures: none View list of references