Pairwise mergers in bipartite matching games with an application in collaborative logistics

Merging among players in a cooperative game can alter the structure of the core. This paper shows that in bipartite matching games, if pairs of players from different sides merge, the structure of the core remains unchanged. This allows us to extend the well-known result regarding the characterizati...

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Main Author: Hezarkhni, Behzad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/39121/