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Modifying the Hoede-Bakker index to the Shapley-Shubik and Holler-Packel indices

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Working Paper GATE 2007-29In the paper, we present some modifications of the Hoede-Bakker index defined in a social network in which players may influence each other. Due to influences of the other actors, the final decision of a player may be different from his original inclination. These modifications are defined for an arbitrary probability distribution over all inclination vectors. In particular, they concern a situation in which the inclination vectors may be not equally probable. Furthermore, byassuming special probability distributions over all inclination vectors, we construct modificationsof the Hoede-Bakker index that coincide with the Shapley-Shubik index and with the Holler-Packelindex, respectively

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