The Core Can Be Accessed in a Bounded Number of Steps

Abstract

This paper strengthens the result of Sengupta and Sengupta (1996). We show that for the class of games with nonempty cores the core can be reached in a bounded number of proposals and counterproposals. Our result is more general than this: the boundedness holds for any two imputations with an indirect dominance relation between them.dynamic cooperative game, indirect dominance, core.