On cores and indivisibility |
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Authors: | Lloyd Shapley Herbert Scarf |
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Institution: | The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif. 90406, U.S.A.;Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 06520, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | An economic model of trading in commodities that are inherently indivisible, like houses, is investigated from a game-theoretic point of view. The concepts of balanced game and core are developed, and a general theorem of Scarf's is applied to prove that the market in question has a nonempty core, that is, at least one outcome that no subset of traders can improve upon. A number of examples are discussed, and the final section reviews a series of other models involving indivisible commodities, with references to the literature. |
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