Game Theory & Graphs

Graph-theoretic models for multiplayer games - known as graphical games - have nice computational properties and are most appropriate for large population games in which the payoffs for each player are determined by the actions of only a small subpopulation.

Working paper Guarantees in Fair Division: beyond Divide & Choose and Moving Knifes Anna Bogomolnaia, Hervé Moulin, Richard Stong Divide and Choose among two agents, and the Diminishing Share (DS) and Moving \| READ MORE ...	Other Guarantees in Fair Division: beyond Divide & Choose and Moving Knifes Anna Bogomolnaia, Hervé Moulin, Richard Stong Divide and Choose among two agents, and the Diminishing Share (DS) and Moving \| READ MORE ...	Article A model of anonymous influence with anti-conformist agents Michel Grabisch, Alexis Poindron, Agnieszka Rusinowska
Article Optimality, Equilibrium, and Curb Sets in Decision Problems Without Commitment P. Jean-Jacques Herings, Andrey Meshalkin, Arkadi Predtetchinski The paper considers a class of decision problems with an infinite time horizon \| READ MORE ...	Article Characterization and simplification of optimal strategies in positive stochastic games János Flesch, Arkadi Predtetchinski and William Sudderth We consider positive zero-sum stochastic games with countable state and action \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Decomposition of games: some strategic considerations Joseph Abdou, Nikolaos Pnevmatikos, Marco Scarsini, Xavier Venel Candogan et al. (2011) provide an orthogonal direct-sum decomposition of finite \| READ MORE ...
Article Dynamic competition over social networks Antoine Mandel, Xavier Venel We propose an analytical approach to the problem of influence maximization in a \| READ MORE ...	Article On importance indices in multicriteria decision making M. Grabisch, Ch. Labreuche and M. Ridaoui We address the problem of how to define an importance index in multicriteria \| READ MORE ...	Article Strategic uncertainty and equilibrium selection in discontinuous games Philippe Bich We introduce the new concept of prudent equilibrium to model strategic \| READ MORE ...
Article Constrained implementation Takashi Hayashi, Michele Lombardi Consider a society with two sectors (issues or objects) that faces a design \| READ MORE ...	Article Adaptive Learning in Weighted Network Games Péter Bayer, P. Jean-Jacques Herings, Ronald Peeters, Frank Thuijsman This paper studies adaptive learning in the class of weighted network games. \| READ MORE ...	Article Perfect information games where each player acts only once Kutay Cingiz, János Flesch, P. Jean-Jacques, Arkadi Predtetchinski We study perfect information games played by an infinite sequence of players, \| READ MORE ...
Article One-step-ahead implementation Takashi Hayashi, Michele Lombardi In many situations, agents are involved in an allocation problem that is \| READ MORE ...	Article Claim games for estate division problems Hans Peters, Marc Schröder, Dries Vermeulen The estate division problem considers the issue of dividing an estate when the \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Anti-Conformism in the threshold Model of Collective Behavior Michel Grabisch, Fen Li We provide a first study of the threshold model, where both conformist and anti \| READ MORE ...
Article Self-enforcing cooperation via strategic investment Herve Moulin, A. Seth, Bart Taub We investigate how, in a situation with two players in which noncooperation is \| READ MORE ...	Article The Myopic Stable Set for Social Environment Thomas Demuynck, P. Jean‐Jacques Herings, Riccardo D. Saulle, Christian Seel We introduce a new solution concept for models of coalition formation, called \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Individual upper semicontinuity and subgame perfect ϵ-equilibria in games with almost perfect information János Flesch, P. Jean-Jacques Herings, Jasmine Maes, Arkadi Predtetchinski We study games with almost perfect information and an infinite time horizon. In \| READ MORE ...
Working paper Farishgted Rationality Dominik Karos, Laura Kasper Farsighted deviations are based on agents’ abilities to compare the outcome of \| READ MORE ...	Article A selfish allocation heuristic in scheduling: Equilibrium and inefficiency bound analysis Jac Braat, Herbert Hamers, Flip Klijn, Marco Slikker For single decision maker optimization problems that lack time efficient \| READ MORE ...	Article International fisheries agreements and non-consumptive values Pedro Pintassilgo, Marita Laukkanen, Lone Grønbæk, Marko Lindroos
Article Exploration of the interactions between mitigation and solar radiation management in cooperative and non-cooperative international governance settings Johannes Emmerling, MassimoTavoni Growing concerns about climate change impacts on humans and eco-systems \| READ MORE ...	Article Full revelation under optional verification SimonSchopohl We analyze a Sender–Receiver game in which the Sender can choose between a \| READ MORE ...	Article Stability in games with continua of equilibria Sebastian Bervoets, Mathieu Faure The stability of Nash equilibria has often been studied by examining the \| READ MORE ...
Article Epistemic equivalence of extended belief hierarchies EliasTsakas In this paper, we introduce a notion of epistemic equivalence between \| READ MORE ...	Book Fair Division and Collective Welfare Hervé Moulin The concept of fair division is as old as civil society itself. Aristotle' \| READ MORE ...	Article Limited focus in dynamic games Andrés Perea, Elias Tsakas In this paper we introduce a novel framework that allows us to model games with \| READ MORE ...
Article Common belief of weak-dominance rationality in strategic-form games: A qualitative analysis Giacomo Bonanno, Elias Tsakas We study common belief of weak-dominance rationality in strategic-form games \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Partially-honest Nash implementation: a full characterization Michele Lombardi, Naoki Yoshihara A partially-honest individual is a person who follows the maxim, "Do not \| READ MORE ...	Article Treading a fine line: (im)possibilities for Nash implementation with partially-honest individuals M.Lombardi, N.Yoshihara This paper investigates the robustness of Dutta and Sen's (2012) Theorem 1 \| READ MORE ...
Working paper R&D network formation with myopic and farsighted firms Ana Mauleon, Jose J. Sempere-Monerris, Vincent Vannetelbosch We study the formation of R&D networks when each Örm beneÖts from the \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Network formation with myopic and farsighted players Chenghong Luo, Ana Mauleon, Vincent Vannetelbosch We study the formation of networks where myopic and farsighted individuals \| READ MORE ...	Article Agreeing to Disagree with Conditional Probability Systems Elias Tsakas In this note, we extend Aumann’s agreement theorem to a framework where beliefs \| READ MORE ...
Article Learning with Minimal Information in Continuous Games Sebastian Bervoets, Mario Bravo, Mathieu Faure We introduce a stochastic learning process called the dampened gradient \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Existence of justifiable equilibrium Janos Flesch, Dries Vermeulen, Anna Zseleva We present a general existence result for a type of equilibrium in normal-form \| READ MORE ...	Article Wary of the worst: Maximizing award guarantees when new claimants may arrive Patrick Harless When rationing a resource or adjudicating conflicting claims, the arrival of \| READ MORE ...
Working paper Bertrand Competition with Asymmetric Costs: A Solution in Pure Strategies Thomas Demuynck, P. Jean-Jacques Herings, Riccardo Saulle, Christian Seel We consider two versions of a Bertrand duopoly with asymmetric costs and \| READ MORE ...	Article Subgame perfect equilibria in majoritarian bargaining P. Jean-Jacques Herings, Andrey Meshalkin, Arkadi Predtetchinski We study the division of a surplus under majoritarian bargaining in the three- \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Competition for leadership in teams Ana Mauleon, Simon Schopohl and Vincent Vannetelbosch We analyze a model of information centralization in teams where players can \| READ MORE ...
Working paper Unrestricted Domain Extensions of Dominant Strategy Implementable Allocation Functions Paul H. Edelman and John A Weymark It is shown that any one-person dominant strategy implementable allocation \| READ MORE ...	Article Hotelling’s location model with negative network externalities Hans Peters, Marc Schröder, Dries Vermeulen We study a variation of Hotelling’s location model in which consumers choose \| READ MORE ...	New books Handbook of Game Theory and Industrial Organization: Theory and Applications The first volume of this wide-ranging Handbook contains original contributions \| READ MORE ...
Article Linearity of the core correspondence Dénes Pálvölgy, Hans Peters, Dries Vermeulen Bloch and de Clippel (J Econ Theory 145:2424–2434, 2010) characterized sets of \| READ MORE ...	Article Common belief in approximate rationality Angie Mounir, AndrésPerea, EliasTsakas This paper substitutes the standard rationality assumption with approximate \| READ MORE ...	Article Piracy on the Internet: Accommodate it or fight it? A dynamic approach P. Jean-Jacques Herings, Ronald Peeters, Michael S.Yang This paper uses a dynamic stochastic model to solve for the optimal pricing \| READ MORE ...
Article A Characterization of Subgame-Perfect Equilibrium Plays in Borel Games of Perfect Information János Flesch, Arkadi Predtetchinski We provide a characterization of subgame-perfect equilibrium plays in a class \| READ MORE ...	Article Noncooperative oligopoly in markets with a continuum of traders and a strongly connected set of commodities Francesca Busetto, Giulio Codognato, Sayantan Ghosal, Ludovic Julien, SimoneTonin We show the existence of a Cournot–Nash equilibrium for a mixed version of the \| READ MORE ...	Article Best-Response Cycles in Perfect Information Games P. Jean-Jacques Herings, Arkadi Predtetchinski We consider n-player perfect information games with payoff functions having a \| READ MORE ...
From theory to application Pricing and referrals in diffusion on networks Matt V. Leduc, Matthew O. Jackson, Ramesh Johari .	Article Forward induction reasoning and correct beliefs AndrésPerea All equilibrium concepts implicitly make a correct beliefs assumption, stating \| READ MORE ...	Article Imitation and price competition in a differentiated market Abhimanyu Khan, Ronald Peeters We study the stable market outcome that evolves in a spatially differentiated \| READ MORE ...
Working paper Enlarging the collective model of household behaviour: a revealed preference analysis Claude d'Aspremont and Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira We use a comprehensive model of strategic household behaviour in which the \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Communication Games with Optional Verification Simon Schopohl We consider a Sender-Receiver game in which the Sender can choose between \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Choice with Time João V. Ferreira, Nicolas Gravel We propose a framework for the analysis of choice behavior when the later \| READ MORE ...
Working paper Warm-Glow Giving in Networks with Multiple Public Goods Lionel Richefort This paper explores a voluntary contribution game in the presence of warm-glow \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Mechanisms with Referrals: VCG Mechanisms and Multilevel Mechanisms Joosung Lee We study mechanisms for environments in which only some of the agents are \| READ MORE ...	Article Noncooperative oligopoly in markets with a continuum of traders and a strongly connected set of commodities Francesca Busetto, Giulio Codognato, Sayantan Ghosal, Ludovic Julien, Simone Tonin We show the existence of a Cournot–Nash equilibrium for a mixed version of the \| READ MORE ...
Article Biased contests for symmetric players Mikhail Drugov, Dmitry Ryvkin In a biased contest, one of the players has an advantage in the winner \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Dynamic competition over social networks Antoine Mandel, Xavier Venel We provide an analytical approach to the problem of influence maximization in a \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Formation of coalition structures as a non-cooperative game Dmitry Levando The paper defines a family of nested non-cooperative simultaneous finite games \| READ MORE ...
Working paper Information Transmission in Hierarchies Simon Schopohl We analyze a game in which players with unique information are arranged in a \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Uncertain Rationality, Depth of Reasoning and Robustness in Games with Incomplete Information Fabrizio Germano, Jonathan Weinstein and Peio Zuazo-Garin Predictions under common knowledge of payoffs may differ from those under arbi \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Games for cautious players: the equilibrium in secure strategies Mikhail Iskakov, Alexey Iskakov and Claude d'Aspremont A non-cooperative solution, the Equilibrium in Secure Strategies (EinSS), is \| READ MORE ...
Article When Do Types Induce the Same Belief Hierarchy? Andrés Perea and Willemien Kets Type structures are a simple device to describe higher-order beliefs. However, \| READ MORE ...	Article Using Adaptation Insurance to Incentivize Climate-change Mitigation C. Patrick Doncaster, Alessandro Tavoni, James G. Dyke Effective responses to climate change may demand a radical shift in human \| READ MORE ...	Article Consistent bilateral assignment Herve Moulin We look for assignment rules meeting the powerful separability property known \| READ MORE ...
Article Long-Term Values in Markov Decision Processes and Repeated Games, and a New Distance for Probability Spaces Jérôme Renault, Xavier Venel We study long-term Markov decision processes (MDPs) and gambling houses, with \| READ MORE ...	Article Best-Response Cycles in Perfect Information Games P. Jean-Jacques Herings, Arkadi Predtetchinski We consider n-player perfect information games with payoff functions having a \| READ MORE ...	Book Set Functions, Games and Capacities in Decision Making Michel Grabisch The book provides a thorough treatment of set functions, games and capacities \| READ MORE ...
Article Continuous Time Contests with Private Information Christian Seel, Philipp Strack This paper introduces a class of contest models in which each player decides \| READ MORE ...	From theory to application The Dynamics of Conflict. Technology, Hegemony, Balance of Power and Buffer States Marcin Dziubiński, Sanjeev Goyal and David Minarsch .	Working paper Existence of Share Equilibrium in Symmetric Local Public Good Economies Anne Van den Nouweland and Myrna Wooders Share equilibrium was introduced in van den Nouweland and Wooders (2011) as an \| READ MORE ...
Working paper The Subgame Perfect Core Parkash Chander and Myrna Wooders We propose a cooperative solution concept for games in extensive form that \| READ MORE ...	Article Sporadic Overtaking Optimality in Markov Decision Problems János Flesch, Arkadi Predtetchinski, Eilon Solan This paper examines a notion of sporadic overtaking optimality in the context \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Exploring the Community Structure of Complex Networks Carlo Drago Regarding complex networks, one of the most relevant problems is to understand \| READ MORE ...
Working paper Ranking Languages in the European Union Victor Ginsburgh, Juan D.moreno-Ternero and Shlomo Weber This article presents a stylized framework to rank languages in multilingual \| READ MORE ...	Article Subgame-Perfect ϵ-Equilibria in Perfect Information Games with Common Preferences at the Limit János Flesch, Arkadi Predtetchinski We prove the existence of a pure subgame–perfect epsilon–equilibrium, for every \| READ MORE ...	Working paper The Principle of Minimum Differentiation Revisited: Return of the Median Voter Nobuyuki Hanaki, Emily Tanimura, Nicolaas J. Vriend We study a linear location model (Hotelling, 1929) in which n (with n ≥ 2) \| READ MORE ...
Working paper Competition for the access to and use of information in networks Philipp Möhlmeier, Agnieszka Rusinowska, Emily Tanimura In a network formation framework, where payoffs reflect an agent’s ability to \| READ MORE ...	Article Doing it now, later, or never Kutay Cingiz, János Flesch, P. Jean-Jacques Herings, Arkadi Predtetchinski We study centipede games played by an infinite sequence of players. Following \| READ MORE ...	Article Learning with communication barriers due to overconfidence. What "model-to-model analysis" can add to the understanding of a problem Juliette Rouchier, Emily Tanimura In this paper, we describe a process of validation for an already published \| READ MORE ...
Article Decentralized pricing and the equivalence between Nash and Walrasian equilibrium Antoine Mandel, Herbert Gintis We introduce, in the standard exchange economy model, market games in which \| READ MORE ...	Article A degree-distance-based connections model with negative and positive externalities Philipp Möhlmeier, Agnieszka Rusinowska, Emily Tanimura We develop a modification of the connections model by Jackson and Wolinsky that \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Democracy for Polarized Committees: The Tale of Blotto's Lieutenants Alessandra Casella, Jean-François Laslier, Antonin Macé In a polarized committee, majority voting disenfranchises the minority. By \| READ MORE ...
Working paper Overcoming Coordination Failure in a Critical Mass Game: Strategic Motives and Action Disclosure Aidas Masiliunas We study whether coordination failure is more often overcome if players can \| READ MORE ...	Article On values of repeated games with signals Hugo Gimbert, Jérôme Renault, Sylvain Sorin, Xavier Venel, and Wiesław Zielonka We study the existence of different notions of value in two-person zero-sum \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Ingratiation and Favoritism in Organizations Agnieszka Rusinowska, Vassili Vergopoulos We combine in the same theoretical framework two related phenomena that can be \| READ MORE ...
Working paper Competitive Pressure Widens the Gender Gap in Performance: Evidence from a Two-Stage Competition in Mathematics Nagore Iriberri and Pedro Rey-Biel In a two-stage elimination math contest participants aged from 10 to 16 compete \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Stereotypes are only a Threat when Beliefs are Reinforced: on the Sensitivity of Gender Differences in Performance under Competition to Information Provision Nagore Iriberri and Pedro Rey-Biel We show that the existence of gender differences in performance is highly \| READ MORE ...	Article A one-period memory folk theorem for multilateral bargaining games P. Jean-Jacques Herings, Andrey Meshalkin, Arkadi Predtetchinski We study strategies with one-period recall in the context of a general class of \| READ MORE ...
COP21: Can game theory predict a global deal on climate change? Alessandro Tavoni (LSE & FEEM) has published a commentary on how to use \| READ MORE ...	From theory to application How to fight against pandemics, cybercrime and terrorism? - Solving the coordination problem Ingrid Rohde Coordination is a vital element of human life, whether it be greeting each \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Voluntary Provision of Public Knowledge Goods: Group-Based Social Preferences and Coalition Formation Tom Dedeurwaerdere, Paolo Melindi-Ghidi, Willem Sas In this paper we develop a private-collective model of voluntary public \| READ MORE ...
Working paper Outsourcing with Identical Suppliers and Shortest-First Policy: A Laboratory Experiment Flip Klijn, Marc Vorsatz We report on a laboratory experiment based on a stylized model of decentralized \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Doing it now, later, or never Kutay Cingiz, Jànos Flesch, P. Jean-Jacques Herings We study centipede games played by an infinite sequence of players. Following \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Selecting among acquitted defendants: procedural choice vs. selective compensation Andrew F. Daughety and Jennifer F. Reinganum In this paper we consider two means for implementing the informational benefits \| READ MORE ...
Working paper Costless delay in negotiations P. Jean-Jacques Herings, Harold Houba We study strategic negotiation models featuring costless delay, general \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Contagion Risk and Network Design Diego Cerdeiro, Marcin Dziubinski, Sanjeev Goyal Individuals derive benefits from their connections, but these may, at the same \| READ MORE ...	Book Industrial Organization. Markets and Strategies Paul Belleflamme, Martin Peitz Industrial Organization: Markets and Strategies offers an up-to-date and \| READ MORE ...
Working paper The Evolution of a "Kantian Trait": Inferring from the Dictator Game Lorenzo Cerda Planas The aim of this paper is twofold. Starting from the population dynamics \| READ MORE ...

Working paper Guarantees in Fair Division: beyond Divide & Choose and Moving Knifes Anna Bogomolnaia, Hervé Moulin, Richard Stong Divide and Choose among two agents, and the Diminishing Share (DS) and Moving \| READ MORE ...	Other Guarantees in Fair Division: beyond Divide & Choose and Moving Knifes Anna Bogomolnaia, Hervé Moulin, Richard Stong Divide and Choose among two agents, and the Diminishing Share (DS) and Moving \| READ MORE ...	Article A model of anonymous influence with anti-conformist agents Michel Grabisch, Alexis Poindron, Agnieszka Rusinowska
Article Optimality, Equilibrium, and Curb Sets in Decision Problems Without Commitment P. Jean-Jacques Herings, Andrey Meshalkin, Arkadi Predtetchinski The paper considers a class of decision problems with an infinite time horizon \| READ MORE ...	Article Characterization and simplification of optimal strategies in positive stochastic games János Flesch, Arkadi Predtetchinski and William Sudderth We consider positive zero-sum stochastic games with countable state and action \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Decomposition of games: some strategic considerations Joseph Abdou, Nikolaos Pnevmatikos, Marco Scarsini, Xavier Venel Candogan et al. (2011) provide an orthogonal direct-sum decomposition of finite \| READ MORE ...
Article Dynamic competition over social networks Antoine Mandel, Xavier Venel We propose an analytical approach to the problem of influence maximization in a \| READ MORE ...	Article On importance indices in multicriteria decision making M. Grabisch, Ch. Labreuche and M. Ridaoui We address the problem of how to define an importance index in multicriteria \| READ MORE ...	Article Strategic uncertainty and equilibrium selection in discontinuous games Philippe Bich We introduce the new concept of prudent equilibrium to model strategic \| READ MORE ...
Article Constrained implementation Takashi Hayashi, Michele Lombardi Consider a society with two sectors (issues or objects) that faces a design \| READ MORE ...	Article Adaptive Learning in Weighted Network Games Péter Bayer, P. Jean-Jacques Herings, Ronald Peeters, Frank Thuijsman This paper studies adaptive learning in the class of weighted network games. \| READ MORE ...	Article Perfect information games where each player acts only once Kutay Cingiz, János Flesch, P. Jean-Jacques, Arkadi Predtetchinski We study perfect information games played by an infinite sequence of players, \| READ MORE ...
Article One-step-ahead implementation Takashi Hayashi, Michele Lombardi In many situations, agents are involved in an allocation problem that is \| READ MORE ...	Article Claim games for estate division problems Hans Peters, Marc Schröder, Dries Vermeulen The estate division problem considers the issue of dividing an estate when the \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Anti-Conformism in the threshold Model of Collective Behavior Michel Grabisch, Fen Li We provide a first study of the threshold model, where both conformist and anti \| READ MORE ...
Article Self-enforcing cooperation via strategic investment Herve Moulin, A. Seth, Bart Taub We investigate how, in a situation with two players in which noncooperation is \| READ MORE ...	Article The Myopic Stable Set for Social Environment Thomas Demuynck, P. Jean‐Jacques Herings, Riccardo D. Saulle, Christian Seel We introduce a new solution concept for models of coalition formation, called \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Individual upper semicontinuity and subgame perfect ϵ-equilibria in games with almost perfect information János Flesch, P. Jean-Jacques Herings, Jasmine Maes, Arkadi Predtetchinski We study games with almost perfect information and an infinite time horizon. In \| READ MORE ...
Working paper Farishgted Rationality Dominik Karos, Laura Kasper Farsighted deviations are based on agents’ abilities to compare the outcome of \| READ MORE ...	Article A selfish allocation heuristic in scheduling: Equilibrium and inefficiency bound analysis Jac Braat, Herbert Hamers, Flip Klijn, Marco Slikker For single decision maker optimization problems that lack time efficient \| READ MORE ...	Article International fisheries agreements and non-consumptive values Pedro Pintassilgo, Marita Laukkanen, Lone Grønbæk, Marko Lindroos
Article Exploration of the interactions between mitigation and solar radiation management in cooperative and non-cooperative international governance settings Johannes Emmerling, MassimoTavoni Growing concerns about climate change impacts on humans and eco-systems \| READ MORE ...	Article Full revelation under optional verification SimonSchopohl We analyze a Sender–Receiver game in which the Sender can choose between a \| READ MORE ...	Article Stability in games with continua of equilibria Sebastian Bervoets, Mathieu Faure The stability of Nash equilibria has often been studied by examining the \| READ MORE ...
Article Epistemic equivalence of extended belief hierarchies EliasTsakas In this paper, we introduce a notion of epistemic equivalence between \| READ MORE ...	Book Fair Division and Collective Welfare Hervé Moulin The concept of fair division is as old as civil society itself. Aristotle' \| READ MORE ...	Article Limited focus in dynamic games Andrés Perea, Elias Tsakas In this paper we introduce a novel framework that allows us to model games with \| READ MORE ...
Article Common belief of weak-dominance rationality in strategic-form games: A qualitative analysis Giacomo Bonanno, Elias Tsakas We study common belief of weak-dominance rationality in strategic-form games \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Partially-honest Nash implementation: a full characterization Michele Lombardi, Naoki Yoshihara A partially-honest individual is a person who follows the maxim, "Do not \| READ MORE ...	Article Treading a fine line: (im)possibilities for Nash implementation with partially-honest individuals M.Lombardi, N.Yoshihara This paper investigates the robustness of Dutta and Sen's (2012) Theorem 1 \| READ MORE ...
Working paper R&D network formation with myopic and farsighted firms Ana Mauleon, Jose J. Sempere-Monerris, Vincent Vannetelbosch We study the formation of R&D networks when each Örm beneÖts from the \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Network formation with myopic and farsighted players Chenghong Luo, Ana Mauleon, Vincent Vannetelbosch We study the formation of networks where myopic and farsighted individuals \| READ MORE ...	Article Agreeing to Disagree with Conditional Probability Systems Elias Tsakas In this note, we extend Aumann’s agreement theorem to a framework where beliefs \| READ MORE ...
Article Learning with Minimal Information in Continuous Games Sebastian Bervoets, Mario Bravo, Mathieu Faure We introduce a stochastic learning process called the dampened gradient \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Existence of justifiable equilibrium Janos Flesch, Dries Vermeulen, Anna Zseleva We present a general existence result for a type of equilibrium in normal-form \| READ MORE ...	Article Wary of the worst: Maximizing award guarantees when new claimants may arrive Patrick Harless When rationing a resource or adjudicating conflicting claims, the arrival of \| READ MORE ...
Working paper Bertrand Competition with Asymmetric Costs: A Solution in Pure Strategies Thomas Demuynck, P. Jean-Jacques Herings, Riccardo Saulle, Christian Seel We consider two versions of a Bertrand duopoly with asymmetric costs and \| READ MORE ...	Article Subgame perfect equilibria in majoritarian bargaining P. Jean-Jacques Herings, Andrey Meshalkin, Arkadi Predtetchinski We study the division of a surplus under majoritarian bargaining in the three- \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Competition for leadership in teams Ana Mauleon, Simon Schopohl and Vincent Vannetelbosch We analyze a model of information centralization in teams where players can \| READ MORE ...
Working paper Unrestricted Domain Extensions of Dominant Strategy Implementable Allocation Functions Paul H. Edelman and John A Weymark It is shown that any one-person dominant strategy implementable allocation \| READ MORE ...	Article Hotelling’s location model with negative network externalities Hans Peters, Marc Schröder, Dries Vermeulen We study a variation of Hotelling’s location model in which consumers choose \| READ MORE ...	New books Handbook of Game Theory and Industrial Organization: Theory and Applications The first volume of this wide-ranging Handbook contains original contributions \| READ MORE ...
Article Linearity of the core correspondence Dénes Pálvölgy, Hans Peters, Dries Vermeulen Bloch and de Clippel (J Econ Theory 145:2424–2434, 2010) characterized sets of \| READ MORE ...	Article Common belief in approximate rationality Angie Mounir, AndrésPerea, EliasTsakas This paper substitutes the standard rationality assumption with approximate \| READ MORE ...	Article Piracy on the Internet: Accommodate it or fight it? A dynamic approach P. Jean-Jacques Herings, Ronald Peeters, Michael S.Yang This paper uses a dynamic stochastic model to solve for the optimal pricing \| READ MORE ...
Article A Characterization of Subgame-Perfect Equilibrium Plays in Borel Games of Perfect Information János Flesch, Arkadi Predtetchinski We provide a characterization of subgame-perfect equilibrium plays in a class \| READ MORE ...	Article Noncooperative oligopoly in markets with a continuum of traders and a strongly connected set of commodities Francesca Busetto, Giulio Codognato, Sayantan Ghosal, Ludovic Julien, SimoneTonin We show the existence of a Cournot–Nash equilibrium for a mixed version of the \| READ MORE ...	Article Best-Response Cycles in Perfect Information Games P. Jean-Jacques Herings, Arkadi Predtetchinski We consider n-player perfect information games with payoff functions having a \| READ MORE ...
From theory to application Pricing and referrals in diffusion on networks Matt V. Leduc, Matthew O. Jackson, Ramesh Johari .	Article Forward induction reasoning and correct beliefs AndrésPerea All equilibrium concepts implicitly make a correct beliefs assumption, stating \| READ MORE ...	Article Imitation and price competition in a differentiated market Abhimanyu Khan, Ronald Peeters We study the stable market outcome that evolves in a spatially differentiated \| READ MORE ...
Working paper Enlarging the collective model of household behaviour: a revealed preference analysis Claude d'Aspremont and Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira We use a comprehensive model of strategic household behaviour in which the \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Communication Games with Optional Verification Simon Schopohl We consider a Sender-Receiver game in which the Sender can choose between \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Choice with Time João V. Ferreira, Nicolas Gravel We propose a framework for the analysis of choice behavior when the later \| READ MORE ...
Working paper Warm-Glow Giving in Networks with Multiple Public Goods Lionel Richefort This paper explores a voluntary contribution game in the presence of warm-glow \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Mechanisms with Referrals: VCG Mechanisms and Multilevel Mechanisms Joosung Lee We study mechanisms for environments in which only some of the agents are \| READ MORE ...	Article Noncooperative oligopoly in markets with a continuum of traders and a strongly connected set of commodities Francesca Busetto, Giulio Codognato, Sayantan Ghosal, Ludovic Julien, Simone Tonin We show the existence of a Cournot–Nash equilibrium for a mixed version of the \| READ MORE ...
Article Biased contests for symmetric players Mikhail Drugov, Dmitry Ryvkin In a biased contest, one of the players has an advantage in the winner \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Dynamic competition over social networks Antoine Mandel, Xavier Venel We provide an analytical approach to the problem of influence maximization in a \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Formation of coalition structures as a non-cooperative game Dmitry Levando The paper defines a family of nested non-cooperative simultaneous finite games \| READ MORE ...
Working paper Information Transmission in Hierarchies Simon Schopohl We analyze a game in which players with unique information are arranged in a \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Uncertain Rationality, Depth of Reasoning and Robustness in Games with Incomplete Information Fabrizio Germano, Jonathan Weinstein and Peio Zuazo-Garin Predictions under common knowledge of payoffs may differ from those under arbi \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Games for cautious players: the equilibrium in secure strategies Mikhail Iskakov, Alexey Iskakov and Claude d'Aspremont A non-cooperative solution, the Equilibrium in Secure Strategies (EinSS), is \| READ MORE ...
Article When Do Types Induce the Same Belief Hierarchy? Andrés Perea and Willemien Kets Type structures are a simple device to describe higher-order beliefs. However, \| READ MORE ...	Article Using Adaptation Insurance to Incentivize Climate-change Mitigation C. Patrick Doncaster, Alessandro Tavoni, James G. Dyke Effective responses to climate change may demand a radical shift in human \| READ MORE ...	Article Consistent bilateral assignment Herve Moulin We look for assignment rules meeting the powerful separability property known \| READ MORE ...
Article Long-Term Values in Markov Decision Processes and Repeated Games, and a New Distance for Probability Spaces Jérôme Renault, Xavier Venel We study long-term Markov decision processes (MDPs) and gambling houses, with \| READ MORE ...	Article Best-Response Cycles in Perfect Information Games P. Jean-Jacques Herings, Arkadi Predtetchinski We consider n-player perfect information games with payoff functions having a \| READ MORE ...	Book Set Functions, Games and Capacities in Decision Making Michel Grabisch The book provides a thorough treatment of set functions, games and capacities \| READ MORE ...
Article Continuous Time Contests with Private Information Christian Seel, Philipp Strack This paper introduces a class of contest models in which each player decides \| READ MORE ...	From theory to application The Dynamics of Conflict. Technology, Hegemony, Balance of Power and Buffer States Marcin Dziubiński, Sanjeev Goyal and David Minarsch .	Working paper Existence of Share Equilibrium in Symmetric Local Public Good Economies Anne Van den Nouweland and Myrna Wooders Share equilibrium was introduced in van den Nouweland and Wooders (2011) as an \| READ MORE ...
Working paper The Subgame Perfect Core Parkash Chander and Myrna Wooders We propose a cooperative solution concept for games in extensive form that \| READ MORE ...	Article Sporadic Overtaking Optimality in Markov Decision Problems János Flesch, Arkadi Predtetchinski, Eilon Solan This paper examines a notion of sporadic overtaking optimality in the context \| READ MORE ...	Working paper Exploring the Community Structure of Complex Networks Carlo Drago Regarding complex networks, one of the most relevant problems is to understand \| READ MORE ...
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