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Nontransferable utility bankruptcy games

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  • Arantza Estévez-Fernández

    (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

  • Peter Borm

    (Tilburg University)

  • M. Gloria Fiestras-Janeiro

    (Universidade de Vigo)

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze bankruptcy problems with nontransferable utility (NTU) from a game theoretical perspective by redefining corresponding NTU-bankruptcy games in a tailor-made way. It is shown that NTU-bankruptcy games are both coalition-merge convex and ordinally convex. Generalizing the notions of core cover and compromise stability for transferable utility (TU) games to NTU-games, we also show that each NTU-bankruptcy game is compromise stable. Thus, NTU-bankruptcy games are shown to retain the two characterizing properties of TU-bankruptcy games: convexity and compromise stability. As a first example of a game theoretical NTU-bankruptcy rule, we analyze the adjusted proportional rule and show that this rule corresponds to the compromise value of NTU-bankruptcy games.

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  • Arantza Estévez-Fernández & Peter Borm & M. Gloria Fiestras-Janeiro, 2020. "Nontransferable utility bankruptcy games," TOP: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, Springer;Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa, vol. 28(1), pages 154-177, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:topjnl:v:28:y:2020:i:1:d:10.1007_s11750-019-00527-z
    DOI: 10.1007/s11750-019-00527-z
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    NTU-bankruptcy problem; NTU-bankruptcy game; Coalition-merge convexity; Ordinal convexity; Compromise stability; Adjusted proportional rule;
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    • C71 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Cooperative Games

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