Bargaining and Power

Date
25.06.2013
25.06.2013
Authors
Dominik Karos
JEL Code
C71, D71
C71, D71
Keywords:
Coalition Formation, Power, Bargaining
Coalition Formation, Power, Bargaining
Publisher
Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Editor
Carlo Carraro
Carlo Carraro
Given a simple game, a power configuration specifies the power of each player in each winning coalition. We introduce a new power configuration which takes into account bargaining among players in coalitions. We show that under very weak conditions on a bargaining solution there is a power configuration which is stable with respect to renegotiations. We further show that given this power configuration there is a coalition which is both internally and Nash stable. We consider two different bargaining solutions on apex games and show under which conditions there are core stable coalitions. Finally, we
investigate how infeasible coalition might affect the outcome and apply our model to the German parliament.