Economic Applications of Game Theory
A special issue of Games (ISSN 2073-4336). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Game Theory".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 94
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issues of Games, titled "Economic Applications of Game Theory", will focus on applications of game theory across areas of economics. We will be primarily interested in research focusing on the main concepts of game theory, such as the Nash equilibrium, subgame perfect equilibrium, Perfect Bayesian equilibrium, Sequential equilibrium, and other related concepts that are used to analyze important issues in economics. In particular, we encourage research submissions on economic issues and models in which players possess private information and make strategic decisions.
As is well known, game theory has been applied widely and to many topics in industrial organization, including various forms of competition among firms, both in the static and dynamic settings, as well as with complete and private information. Applications of game theory in Economics, however, goes well beyond this. Game theory has also been used to analyze important questions in macroeconomics, international trade, and Contract Theory, among many others. Hence, research that builds on work performed in such areas of economics are also apt for this Special Issue, and will be given careful consideration.
While our primary focus will mostly be on novel applications, high-quality work on the fundamentals of game theory are welcome as well. Work on new and emerging areas that link game theory to computational algorithms, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are also of interest for this collection. Our main goal is to publish cutting-edge research articles in game theory that have a solid connection to economics.
Dr. Subir K. Chakrabarti
Guest Editor
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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
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