Cooperative bargaining and coalition formation

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In this study, I am working on the relationship between coalition formation and bargaining. More specifically, I use a baseline cooperative bargaining model in which a group of agents with symmetric single peaked preferences form coalitions to bargain with a principle. I use this model to study the e ects of the underlying bargaining process on the structure of the coalition formed by the agents, and to classify the properties that form a grand coalition. Later on, I also introduce an alternative cooperative bargaining model to understand the connection between the bargaining process and coalition formation.