Semivalues: weighting coefficients and allocations on unanimity games

This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Optimization letters. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11590-017-1224-8.Each semivalue, as a solution concept defined on cooperative games with a finite set of players, is univocally determined by weighting coefficients that apply to players’ marginal contributions. Taking into account that a semivalue induces semivalues on lower cardinalities, we prove that its weighting coefficients can be reconstructed from the last weighting coefficients of its induced semivalues. Moreover, we provide the conditions of a sequence of numbers in order to be the family of the last coefficients of any induced semivalues. As a consequence of this fact, we give two characterizations of each semivalue defined on cooperative games with a finite set of players: one, among all semivalues; another, among all solution concepts on cooperative games.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft