Accession Number:

ADA112608

Title:

Approximate Cores of a General Class of Economies. Part II. Set-Up Costs and Firm Formation in Coalition Production Economies,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

YALE UNIV NEW HAVEN CT COWLES FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS

Personal Author(s):

• Shubik,Martin
• Wooders,Myrna Holtz

Report Date:

1982-02-01

Pagination or Media Count:

37.0

Abstract:

A general model of a coalition production economy allowing set up costs, indivisibilities, and non-convexities is developed. It is shown that for all sufficiently large replications, approximate cores of the economy are non-empty. Author

Descriptors:

• *Economics
• *Production
• *Approximation(Mathematics)
• *Economic models
• Theory
• Setting(Adjusting)
• Models
• Group dynamics
• Marketing
• Computations
• Strategy
• Cores

Subject Categories:

• Economics and Cost Analysis
• Numerical Mathematics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE