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Solutions Based on Bargaining

Course subject(s) Module 7: Solutions based on bargaining

Lecture_Slides_Chapter_29.pdf Bargaining Sets. This lecture introduces yet another solution concept for cooperative games, and shows you how to compute it.

Lecture_Slides_Chapter_30.pdf Application to Politics: Parliamentary Coalitions. Although the book mostly uses Bargaining Sets and applies them to the Norwegian parliament, these slides pay more attention to (ideological) Policy Spaces and use the Dutch parliament as an example.

Lecture_Slides_Chapter_31.pdf The Nucleolus and Gately Point. Both solution concepts are based on bargaining, but the Nucleolus treats all possible coalitions as equally important, whereas the Gately Point appeases the most valuable coalition members first.

Worksheet_Cooperative_Game_Theory The last slide of the lecture on chapter 31 shows a screenshot of this excel spreadsheet. This is an example of how to easily calculate the Nucleolus, Gately Point, and the Disruption Nucleolus with microsoft excel.

Lecture_Slides_Chapter_32_.pdf Application to Economics: Cost Allocation in India. A nice example of how to model a real world problem as a game, and then analyzing it with the core, shapley value, nucleolus, and Gately point.

Lecture_Slides_Chapter_33_.pdf Application to Anthropology: Pathan Organization. The new concepts of the previous chapter (imputation, domination, stable sets) are clarified by applying them to coalition formation among certain tribes in Northern Pakistan.

Lecture_Slides_on_Using_Game_Theory_in_a_Thesis.pdf This lecture shows how game theory is related to other disciplines and research methods, points of attention when using game theory techniques, and suggestions for further study.

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