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We generalize the well-known result of the coincidence of the bargaining set and the core for convex games (Maschler et al. 1972) to the class of games named almost-convex games, that is, coalitional games where all proper subgames are convex.
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Getán, J., Izquierdo, J.M., Montes, J. et al. The bargaining set for almost-convex games. Ann Oper Res 225, 83–89 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-012-1226-y
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