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The Non-Consistency and Non-Uniqueness of the Consistent Value

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As is well known, Shapley’s value [7] can be obtained in terms of marginal payoffs to players in randomly formed coalitions. Moreover, Hart and MasColell [2] have shown that the value satisfies a consistency property in terms of reduced games (see also Peleg [6]).

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Owen, G. (1994). The Non-Consistency and Non-Uniqueness of the Consistent Value. In: Megiddo, N. (eds) Essays in Game Theory. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2648-2_12

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