Assembly problems

Gupta, Dhritiman and Sarkar, Soumendu (2021) Assembly problems. In: Game theory and networks new perspectives and directions. Indian Statistical Institute series . Springer Science and Business Media B.V., Singapore, pp. 89-104. ISBN 9789811647376

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Abstract

A set of sellers own one unit each of an indivisible good. A buyer wants to purchase a subset of these units. Additionally, units in the purchased subset are required to constitute a path of a desirable length in a graph. In this graph, nodes represent units of the good, and edges between pair of nodes represent the complementarity of the pair in the production process used by the buyer. The sellers have non-negative valuations for the units they own. The buyer has a non-negative valuation for every feasible subset of units. These valuations may be common knowledge or private information. An Assembly Problem is the exchange problem described by the graph, the minimal size of a feasible subset, and the valuations of the agents. This chapter surveys two alternative approaches to Assembly Problems, viz., bargaining under complete information and exchange with asymmetric information.

Item Type: Book Section
Keywords: Assembly problem | Asymmetric information | Bargaining | Coalition | Holdout | Mechanism design
Subjects: Social Sciences and humanities > Business, Management and Accounting > Management of Technology and Innovation
JGU School/Centre: Jindal School of Government and Public Policy
Depositing User: Mr. Syed Anas
Date Deposited: 26 Jan 2022 15:24
Last Modified: 07 Apr 2022 07:45
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4737-6_5
Additional Information: We are grateful to Professors Prabal Roy Chowdhury and Arunava Sen and participants of the International Conference on Game Theory and Networks 2019, Dibrugarh University, for their comments and suggestions.
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/880

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