Core stability and strategy-proofness in hedonic coalition formation problems with friend-oriented preferences

B-Tier
Journal: Games and Economic Behavior
Year: 2025
Volume: 154
Issue: C
Pages: 16-52

Score contribution per author:

0.670 = (α=2.01 / 3 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

We study hedonic coalition formation problems with friend-oriented preferences; that is, each agent has preferences over his coalitions based on a partition of the set of agents, except himself, into “friends” and “enemies” such that (E) adding an enemy makes him strictly worse off and (F) adding a friend together with a set of enemies makes him strictly better off. Friend-oriented preferences induce a so-called friendship graph where vertices are agents and directed edges point to friends.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:gamebe:v:154:y:2025:i:c:p:16-52
Journal Field
Theory
Author Count
3
Added to Database
2026-01-25