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The stable fixtures problem with payments

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  • Biró, Péter
  • Kern, Walter
  • Paulusma, Daniël
  • Wojuteczky, Péter

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We consider multiple partners matching games (G,b,w), where G is a graph with an integer vertex capacity function b and an edge weighting w. If G is bipartite, these games are called multiple partners assignment games. We give a polynomial-time algorithm that either finds that a given multiple partners matching game has no stable solution, or obtains a stable solution. We characterize the set of stable solutions of a multiple partners matching game in two different ways and show how this leads to simple proofs for a number of results of Sotomayor (1992, 1999, 2007) for multiple partners assignment games and to generalizations of some of these results to multiple partners matching games. We also perform a study on the core of multiple partners matching games. We prove that the problem of deciding if an allocation belongs to the core jumps from being polynomial-time solvable for b≤2 to NP-complete for b≡3.

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  • Biró, Péter & Kern, Walter & Paulusma, Daniël & Wojuteczky, Péter, 2018. "The stable fixtures problem with payments," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 108(C), pages 245-268.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:gamebe:v:108:y:2018:i:c:p:245-268
    DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2017.02.002
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    Keywords

    Stable solutions; Cooperative game; Core;
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    JEL classification:

    • C61 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
    • C71 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Cooperative Games
    • C78 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Bargaining Theory; Matching Theory

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