Subgame Consistent Cooperation A Comprehensive Treatise

Strategic behavior in the human and social world has been increasingly recognized in theory and practice. It is well known that non-cooperative behavior could lead to suboptimal or even highly undesirable outcomes. Cooperation suggests the possibility of

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David W.K. Yeung Leon A. Petrosyan

Subgame Consistent Cooperation A Comprehensive Treatise

Theory and Decision Library C Game Theory, Social Choice, Decision Theory, and Optimization Volume 47

Editors-in-Chief Herve´ Moulin, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom Hans Peters, Maastricht, The Netherlands Honorary Editor Stef H. Tijs, Tilburg, The Netherlands Editorial Board Jean-Jacques Herings, Maastricht, The Netherlands Matthew O. Jackson, Stanford, CA, USA Mamuro Kaneko, Tokyo, Japan Hans Keiding, Copenhagen, Denmark Bezalel Peleg, Jerusalem, Israel Clemens Puppe, Karlsruhe, Germany Alvin E. Roth, Stanford, CA, USA David Schmeidler, Tel Aviv, Israel Reinhard Selten, Koenigswinter, Germany William Thomson, Rochester, NJ, USA Rakesh Vohra, Evanston, IL, USA Peter P. Wakker, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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David W.K. Yeung • Leon A. Petrosyan

Subgame Consistent Cooperation A Comprehensive Treatise

David W.K. Yeung Center of Game Theory Saint Petersburg State University St Petersburg, Russia SRS Consortium for Advanced Study in Cooperative Dynamic Games Hong Kong Shue Yan University Hong Kong

Leon A. Petrosyan Faculty of Applied Mathematics-Control Processes St Petersburg State University St Petersburg, Russia

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Preface

It is well known that noncooperative behaviors among participants would lead to an outcome which is not Pareto optimal and it could even be highly undesirable. The