Essays in the formation of coalitions in the presence of multilateral externalities

Abstract

Τhis dissertation considers a set of economic agents (districts, regions or countries) that choose whether to cooperate or not when the motivation behind the formation of coalitions comes from the exploitation of externalities.The first chapter focuses on the coalition formation when non-negative externalities arise from discrete regional projects, such as infrastructure facilities. In the spirit of Burbidge et al. (1997), we suppose that the regions share the benefits that emerge from their cooperation by adopting the symmetric Nash bargaining solution. We find that a coalition might subsidize the participation of some of its members and we show that in order for the grand coalition to emerge in equilibrium, the gains from the full cooperation should be sufficiently high. We further find that the set of the projects that are undertaken when the regions cooperate depends partially on their local benefits. To some extent, this is consistent with the idea that when the regions coordinate ...
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DOI
10.12681/eadd/41874
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/41874
ND
41874
Author
Chatzigiatroudakis, Ioannis (Father's name: Georgios)
Date
2017
Degree Grantor
Athens University Economics and Business (AUEB)
Committee members
Ζαχαριάς Ελευθέριος
Γάτσιος Κωνσταντίνος
Γκενάκος Χρήστος
Κωτσόγιαννης Χρίστος
Βλάσσης Μηνάς
Πετράκης Εμμανουήλ
Σταματόπουλος Γεώργιος
Discipline
Social Sciences
Economics and Business
Keywords
Coalition formation; Multilateral externalities; δ-core
Country
Greece
Language
English
Description
134 σ., tbls., fig.
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