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Evolution of Cooperation and Evolutionary Game Theory

edited by

Qi Su

and

Alberto Antonioni

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 788 | 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)

Advances in Games and Economic Behavior: Identity and Beliefs

edited by Jeffrey V. Butler

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 482 | Submission Open

Keywords: identity; cooperation; trust; beliefs

Communication and Persuasion and Their Economic and Political Applications

edited by

Ming Li

and

Arianna Degan

submission deadline 24 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2310 | Submission Open

Keywords: communication; persuasion; cheap talk; information disclosure; information design; conflicts of interest; lobbying; transparency; experiments; strategic communication; persuasion games; signaling; information asymmetry; bayesian persuasion; credible commitments; public signaling; communication equilibria; belief updating; common knowledge; coordination games; disinformation; propaganda; framing effects; agenda setting; media bias; political signaling; voter persuasion; campaign strategy; public opinion; social influence; information cascades; herd behavior; polarization; policy signaling; strategic voting; electoral competition

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

Industrial Organization and Organizational Economics

edited by

Konstantinos Serfes

and

Kaniska Dam

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6749 | 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)

Conflict and Communication: Applications of Game Theory to Political Economy

edited by Dimitri Landa and Le Bihan Patrick

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 427 | Submission Open

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

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

Game Theory in Economics: Recent Advances in Spatial Competition

edited by Stefano Colombo

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3842 | Submission Open

Keywords: spatial competition; Hotelling; Salop; horizontal differentiation; vertical differentiation

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

Game Theory and Risk Analysis

edited by

Kjell Hausken

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2968 | Submission Open

Keywords: game theory; risk analysis; security; safety; cyber risk; financial risk; reliability; digital currencies; cryptocurrencies; terrorism

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

Game Theory and Competition Policy

edited by Heiko Gerlach

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 316 | Submission Open

Keywords: competition policy; games; merger analysis; monopolization; cartels; regulation

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

Evolution, Cooperation and Conflict

edited by Guillaume Cheikbossian

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 200 | Submission Open

Keywords: game theory; evolutionary game theory; behavioral game theory; behavioral economics; other-regarding preferences; social dilemma; collective action; evolution of cooperation; evolution of preferences; social groups; cultural groups; group conflicts; parochial altruism; contest games; kin selection; group selection; online experiments; laboratory experiments; field experiments

(This special issue belongs to the Section Cooperative Game Theory and Bargaining)

Applications of Differential Games and Related Models in Mathematics and Economics

edited by

Bruno Antonio Pansera

Gafurjan Ibragimov

and Lucianna Cananà

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2436 | Submission Open

Keywords: differential games; pursuit– evasion games; graph theory; topological space; hamilton– jacobi equations; numerical methods; PDEs

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

Recent Advances in Network and Graphical Games

edited by Nizar Allouch, Mingyan Liu and

Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 174 | Submission Open

Keywords: strategic interactions; networks; graphical games; Nash equilibrium; computation

Applications of Game Theory to Industrial Organization

edited by

Marco A. Marini

Riccardo D. Saulle

and

Giorgos Stamatopoulos

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 16057 | 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 120 | 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)

Mass Media Industries: The Economic Games

edited by Fabrizio Germano

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2985 | 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)

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

edited by

Kjell Hausken

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 296 | 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

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