Biform games

In what follows, we will cover transferable utility cooperative games (players can share utility via side payments) and two solution concepts the core of the game and the Shapley value, and also biform games that have found several applications in SCM. Not covered are alternative concepts of value, e.g., nu-... 

From the SCM point of view, cooperative games are somewhat unsatisfactory in that they do not explicitly describe the equilibrium actions taken by the players that is often the key in SC models. Biform games, developed by Bran-denburger and Stuart (2003), compensate to some extent for this shortcoming. 

Brandenburger, A. and H.W. Stuart, Jr. 2003. Biform games. Working Paper, Columbia University. 

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