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Efficiency and Stability in a Process of Teams Formation

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  • Leonardo Boncinelli
  • Alessio Muscillo
  • Paolo Pin

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Motivated by data on coauthorships in scientific publications, we analyze a team formation process that generalizes matching models and network formation models, allowing for overlapping teams of heterogeneous size. We apply different notions of stability: myopic team-wise stability, which extends to our setup the concept of pair-wise stability, coalitional stability, where agents are perfectly rational and able to coordinate, and stochastic stability, where agents are myopic and errors occur with vanishing probability. We find that, in many cases, coalitional stability in no way refines myopic team-wise stability, while stochastically stable states are feasible states that maximize the overall number of activities performed by teams.

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  • Leonardo Boncinelli & Alessio Muscillo & Paolo Pin, 2021. "Efficiency and Stability in a Process of Teams Formation," Papers 2103.13712, arXiv.org, revised Oct 2021.
  • Handle: RePEc:arx:papers:2103.13712
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    2. Ennio Bilancini & Leonardo Boncinelli & Paolo Pin & Simon Weidenholzer, 2022. "Preface: DGAA Focused Issue on Dynamic Games and Social Networks," Dynamic Games and Applications, Springer, vol. 12(4), pages 1043-1045, December.

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    • C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
    • C73 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Stochastic and Dynamic Games; Evolutionary Games
    • D85 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Network Formation
    • H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods

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