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Estate Division Problem: The Core and The Godly Interference

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  • Anirban Ghatak

    (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode)

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This article offers a simple method to reduce the Core of a Transferable Utility game to a singleton where the Core happens to have more than one elements in it. By presenting a popular folklore, this article infers that the solution of an integer-constrained estate division problem can be achieved by introducing a temporary player who gets no utility by participating in the game. This article refers to this temporary player as a god. It shows that such god -ly interference can help us to make sense the Core by making it a unique one.

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  • Anirban Ghatak, 2022. "Estate Division Problem: The Core and The Godly Interference," Working papers 497, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode.
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