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This paper analyzes the role played by intermediation in a decentralized market, where trade is carried out through bilateral bargaining, and where the bargaining outcomes depend on the process of search for suitable trading partners. To this purpose, ...rst a model of random matching and twosided search with heterogeneous agents is developed. The characterization of pure search equilibria is p...

In the Edgeworth non-tatonnement process, trade occurs if there exists some coalition of agents able to make a Paretoimproving trade among themselves at current prices. It is known that the size of such coalitions is bounded by the number of commodities and that, provided all agents always have strictly positive endowments, bilateral trade suffices. These results are generalized: Let there be h...

We consider strategic interaction on a network of heterogeneous long-term relationships. The bilateral relationships are independent of each other in terms of actions and realized payoffs, and we assume that information regarding outcomes is private to the two parties involved. In spite of this, the network can induce strategic interdependencies between relationships, which facilitate efficient...

In this note we provide a characterization of the egalitarian correspondence in the context of bargaining problems. The characterization is based on bilateral consistency, contraction and expansion independence.

Since the early 1990s, export control problems have increasingly become one of the key issues in USRussian relations and have frequently surfaced during bilateral dialogue between Russia and a number of other developed countries. Moreover, export controls are actively discussed at multilateral international forums in which Russia participates, such as the G-8. Beginning in the mid-1990s, issues...

1Master Student in Anatomy, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia 2Resident, Department of Orthopaedics, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia 3Lecturer, Department of Orthopaedics, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia 4Professor & Consultant Hand & Microsurgeon, Department of Orthopaedics, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sci...

In this paper, we examine whether farsighted players form the e¢ cient grand coalition structure in coalition formation games. We propose a stability concept for a coalition structure, called sequentially stability, when only bilateral mergers of two separate coalitions are feasible because of high negotiation costs. We provide an algorithm to check the sequential stability of the grand coaliti...