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Industrial Organization and Organizational Economics

edited by

Konstantinos Serfes

and

Kaniska Dam

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8581 | Submission Open

Keywords: organization of the firm; product market structure; firm boundaries; corporate governance; make-or-buy decisions; managerial compensation; capital structure

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Game Theory)

Applications of Game Theory to Industrial Organization

edited by

Marco A. Marini

Riccardo D. Saulle

and

Giorgos Stamatopoulos

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 24457 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-cooperative games; cooperative games; imperfect competition; asymmetric information; vertical markets; collusion; differentiation; innovation; two-sided markets

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Game Theory)

Game Theory Perspectives in Sociology

edited by Sun-Ki Chai

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 351 | Submission Open

Keywords: endogenous preferences and beliefs; social and expressive preferences; motivated beliefs; social identity; attitude formation; cultural evolution; socialization; social norms; ideology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Game Theory)

Economic Applications of Game Theory

edited by Subir K. Chakrabarti

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 211 | Submission Open

Keywords: Nash equilibrium; perfect Bayesian equilibrium; sequential equilibrium; subgame perfect equilibrium; Markov perfect equilibrium; economics and game theory; folk theorem; repeated games; strategic behavior; oligopoly

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Game Theory)

Fairness in Non-Cooperative Strategic Interactions

edited by

Ramzi Suleiman

Amnon Rapoport

, Vernon Smith and Guillermina Jasso

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 14972 | Submission Open

Keywords: game theory; non-cooperative games; fairness; cooperation; social norms; evolution of norms; neuro-correlates of fairness; religious ethics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Non-Cooperative Game Theory)

Mass Media Industries: The Economic Games

edited by Fabrizio Germano

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4304 | Submission Open

Keywords: economics of mass media; media and platform competition; media quality; media independence; social media; media and big data; search engines and ranking algorithms

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Game Theory)

Evolution of Cooperation and Evolutionary Game Theory

edited by

Qi Su

and

Alberto Antonioni

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5085 | Submission Open

Keywords: evolution of cooperation; evolutionary game theory; evolutionary dynamics; game theory; social dilemmas; social norms; social behaviors; human decision making; laboratory experiments; online experiments

(This special issue belongs to the Section Learning and Evolution in Games)

Game Theory in Economics: Recent Advances in Spatial Competition

edited by Stefano Colombo

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4968 | Submission Open

Keywords: spatial competition; game theory; Hotelling; Salop; horizontal differentiation; vertical differentiation; static games; repeated games; Stackelberg games ; entry games; cooperative games; firms' location; urban agglomeration; horizontal differentiation; vertical differentiation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Game Theory)

Conflict and Communication: Applications of Game Theory to Political Economy

edited by Dimitri Landa and Le Bihan Patrick

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3315 | Submission Open

Keywords: communication; conflict; soft and hard information; political economy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Game Theory)

Selected Papers from The 1st International Electronic Conference on Games (IECG 2025)

edited by

Kjell Hausken

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 704 | Submission Open

Keywords: mechanism design; computational game theory; algorithmic game theory; game theory in artificial intelligence; auctions; cooperative games; shapley value; cooperative game theoretic solutions; behavioral game theory; school choice; market design; and others

Game Theory and Competition Policy

edited by Heiko Gerlach

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 571 | Submission Open

Keywords: competition policy; game theory; merger analysis; monopolization; cartels; regulation; regulation of platforms; two-sided markets; data privacy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Game Theory)

Spatial Games

edited by

Pedro Henrique Triguis Schimit

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 33 | Submission Open

Keywords: evolutionary games on lattices; graphs; and hypergraphs; public goods; common pool; or anti-coordination games in spatial settings; co-evolution of strategy and network topology; mobility; metapopulation structure; and dispersal in game– theoretic models; spatial competition and location games in economics and ecology; stochastic and statistical– physics approaches to spatial dilemmas; PDE and reaction– diffusion formulations of spatial games; multilayer; temporal; and adaptive networks in strategic interaction; experimental or empirical studies of spatially structured games; methodological advances: agent-based simulations; high-performance computing; and data-driven calibration of spatial game models

Dynamic Game Theory in Sustainability

edited by

Subhadip Ghosh

and Arka Mukherjee

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 42 | Submission Open

Keywords: nash equilibrium in dynamic settings; stackelberg game; differential games; evolutionary game theory; climate change mitigation; common-pool resource management; intergenerational equity; transboundary pollution; mechanism design for sustainability; renewable resource dynamics; environmental regulation; feedback strategies; public goods games

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Game Theory)

Recent Advances in Microeconomics and Game Theory

edited by

Arnaud Z. Dragicevic

submission deadline 29 May 2026 | Viewed by 120 | Submission Open

Keywords: algorithmic game theory; network formation; behavioral economics; experimental economics; mechanism design; dynamic games; market design; evolutionary games; artificial intelligence; climate games

Evolutionary Games on Networks and Biological Systems

edited by Kalliopi Kastampolidou

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 6 | Submission Open

Keywords: evolutionary game theory; complex networks; replicator dynamics; microbial public goods games; virus– host interaction models; public-goods and prisoner’ s dilemma in biology; quantum evolutionary games; quantum automata and game protocols; ML-driven and knowledge-graph game models; cooperation dynamics; network reciprocity; spatial reciprocity; altruism evolution; cooperative behavior in structured populations; multi-level selection; adaptive networks; co-evolutionary dynamics; stochastic evolutionary dynamics; agent-based modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Game Theory)

Advancements in Social Choice and Mechanism Design

edited by

Stefano Vannucci

submission deadline 1 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 9 | Submission Open

Keywords: aggregation protocols; voting systems; matching protocols; allocation rules; auction protocols; classification and identification protocols; deliberative decision-making procedures; communication and bargaining protocols

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Game Theory)

The Mathematics of Uncertainty in Game Theory

edited by

Giuseppe De Marco

, Maria Romaniello and Alba Roviello

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 29 | Submission Open

Keywords: game theory; ambiguity; imprecise probabilities; noncooperative games; psychological games; general equilibrium; insurance mathematics

Game-Theoretical Analysis of the Division of Labor and Trade Conflict

edited by

Guang-Zhen Sun

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 18 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-cooperative games; conflict; the division of labor; rent seeking; globalization; tariffs

Advances in Contest Theory: Strategic Foundations and Mechanism Design

edited by Jun Zhang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 17 | Submission Open

Keywords: contest theory ; all-pay auctions; rent-seeking models; tournaments; prize optimization; asymmetric contests; entry and participation decisions; information structures; dynamic and stochastic contests; multi-stage competition

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