Stable Economic Cooperation: A Relational Approach

Stable Hedonic Cooperation Structures∗

We consider a model in which players can form links between themselves under mutual agreement, and the set of all pairwise agreements is called a cooperation structure. We stress that we are particularly interested to the case when some players are antagonistic, i.e., that they are separately “desirable” for someone, but “undesirable” when they are together. We define a class of preferences tha...

Economic Cooperation in Asia

During the past five decades developing countries in Asia have provided the most persuasive and credible story as to how poor countries can progress and bring about prosperity for their downtrodden people. Beginning with Japan, followed by NICs particularly Korea, ASEAN countries and now China, these countries have not only doubled or quadrupled per capita incomes in a record time but also sign...

Rethinking relational economic geography

Recent theoretical and empirical work in economic geography has experienced what might be termed a ‘relational turn’ that focuses primarily on the ways in which sociospatial relations of economic actors are intertwined with processes of economic change at various geographical scales. This phenomenon begs the questions of whether the ‘relational turn’ is simply an explicit reworking of what migh...

Concurrency: A Relational Approach

Stable Regularity for Relational Structures

We generalize the stable graph regularity lemma of Malliaris and Shelah to the case of finite structures in finite relational languages, e.g., finite hypergraphs. We show that under the model-theoretic assumption of stability, such a structure has an equitable regularity partition of size polynomial in the reciprocal of the desired accuracy, and such that for each k-ary relation and k-tuple of ...