Applied Game Theory : Proceedings of a Conference at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, June 13–16, 1978

This paper is concerned with the formalization of the notion of power in the context of two person negotiations. The notion of power is defined as follows: the amount of power of A over B is related to the level of achievement of B's objectives in the interaction A-B. As for the origin of power, it is taken as related to the strategies available to both parties in their interaction huch as rewards, punishments, etc.). The development of these ideas relies mainly on the concepts of game theory but specific factors drawn from the psychological and psychosociologicalliterature, such as the notion of representation, arc explicitely introduced in the model. Besides the formalization, the paper includes a detailed discussion of two examples enhancing the role of representation in power analysis. An axiomatic treatment of the model is briefly reported in the appendix. freedom (for a development of these considerations, see Charvet /Levine jPonssard ( 1977]. Charvet I Front Matter....Pages 1-10 Front Matter....Pages 11-11 Power and Negotiation....Pages 13-31 Exploitable Surplus in N -Person Games....Pages 32-38 Structural Power and Satisfaction in Simple Games....Pages 39-57 Voting Weights as Power Proxies: Some Theoretical and Empirical Results....Pages 58-73 Standards of Fairness in 4-Person Monopolistic Cooperative Games....Pages 74-95 Front Matter....Pages 97-97 A Model of the U.S. Presidential Primary Campaign....Pages 99-117 A New Campaign Resource Allocation Model....Pages 118-132 Cabinet Coalition Formation: A Game-Theoretic Analysis....Pages 133-151 An Experimental Test of Several Theories of Committee Decision Making Under Majority Rule....Pages 152-167 Iannucci and Its Aftermath: The Application of the Banzhaf Index to Weighted Voting in the State of New York....Pages 168-183 Front Matter....Pages 185-185 Values of Large Market Games....Pages 187-197 Arbitration of Exchange Situations with Public Goods....Pages 198-203 Efficiency and Altruism in Cooperative Games with Coalition Structures....Pages 204-213 An Approach to the Problem of Efficient Distribution of the Labor Force....Pages 214-235 On Entry Preventing Behavior and Limit Price Models of Entry....Pages 236-253 Reinsurance as a Cooperative Game....Pages 254-269 Tariff Games....Pages 270-284 A Game-Theoretic Approach to International Monetary Confrontations....Pages 285-302 OPEC Pricing and Output Decisions A Partition Function Approach to OPEC Stability....Pages 303-312 An Application of the Entrepreneurial Theory of Games....Pages 313-324 Front Matter....Pages 185-185 Fair Subsidies for Urban Transportation Systems....Pages 325-333 Costs and Their Assessment to Users of a Medical Library: A Game-Theoretic Method for Allocating Joint Fixed Costs....Pages 334-351 Efficiency / Equity Analysis of Environmental Problems — A Game Theoretic Perspective....Pages 352-369 Front Matter....Pages 371-371 Dynamic Standard Setting for Carbon Dioxide....Pages 373-389 Coping with Deception....Pages 390-405 An Optimal Conviction Policy for Offenses that May Have Been Committed by Accident....Pages 406-413 Game Theory Models of Intermale Combat in Fiddler Crabs (Genus Uca )....Pages 414-429 Faith Versus Rationality in the Bible: Game-Theoretic Interpretations of Sacrifice in the Old Testament....Pages 430-445 Back Matter....Pages 446-449