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Game Theory and the Legal Analysis of Tacit Collusion
By: Dennis Yao and Susan DeSanti
Yao, Dennis, and Susan DeSanti. "Game Theory and the Legal Analysis of Tacit Collusion." Antitrust Bulletin 38, no. 1 (Spring 1993): 113–141.
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why Evolutionary Software Development Works
development was evolutionary in nature. Companies first would release a low-functionality version of a product to selected customers at a very early stage of development. Thereafter work would proceed in an iterative fashion, with the... View Details
- November 2006
- Background Note
Technical Game Theory Note #5: Private Information and Signaling Models
By: Dennis A. Yao
Discusses private information and signaling. View Details
- May 2012
- Article
Correlation in the Multiplayer Electronic Mail Game
By: Peter A. Coles and Ran Shorrer
In variants of the Electronic Mail Game (Rubinstein, 1989) where two or more players communicate via multiple channels, the multiple channels can facilitate collective action via redundancy, the sending of the same message along multiple paths or else repeatedly along... View Details
Keywords: Electronic Mail Game; Stag Hunt; Coordination; Signaling; Networks; Behavior; Communication; Trust; Game Theory
Coles, Peter A., and Ran Shorrer. "Correlation in the Multiplayer Electronic Mail Game." B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 12, no. 1 (May 2012).
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Statistical Physics of Human Cooperation
By: Matjaž Perc, Jillian J. Jordan, David G. Rand, Zhen Wang, Stefano Boccaletti and Attila Szolnoki
Extensive cooperation among unrelated individuals is unique to humans, who often sacrifice personal benefits for the common good and work together to achieve what they are unable to execute alone. The evolutionary success of our species is indeed due, to a large... View Details
Keywords: Human Cooperation; Evolutionary Game Theory; Public Goods; Reward; Punishment; Tolerance; Self-organization; Pattern Formation; Cooperation; Behavior; Game Theory
Perc, Matjaž, Jillian J. Jordan, David G. Rand, Zhen Wang, Stefano Boccaletti, and Attila Szolnoki. "Statistical Physics of Human Cooperation." Physics Reports 687 (May 8, 2017): 1–51.
- 19 Oct 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Games of Threats
- 2014
- Working Paper
The NTU-Value of Stochastic Games
By: Elon Kohlberg and Abraham Neyman
Since the seminal paper of Shapley, the theory of stochastic games has been developed in many different directions. However, there has been practically no work on the interplay between stochastic games and cooperative game theory. Our purpose here is to make a first... View Details
Kohlberg, Elon, and Abraham Neyman. "The NTU-Value of Stochastic Games." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-014, September 2014.
- 12 Jul 2016
- News
Prof. Howard Raiffa, Giant in Game Theory and Decision Analysis, Dies at 92
Keywords: Managerial Economics
- 2017
- Working Paper
Cooperative Strategic Games
By: Elon Kohlberg and Abraham Neyman
We examine a solution concept, called the “value," for n-person strategic games. In applications, the value provides an a-priori assessment of the monetary worth of a player's position in a strategic game, comprising not only the player's contribution to the total... View Details
Keywords: Game Theory
Kohlberg, Elon, and Abraham Neyman. "Cooperative Strategic Games." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-075, February 2017.
- 08 Apr 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
The Cooperative Solution of Stochastic Games
Keywords: by Elon Kohlberg & Abraham Neyman
- 1999
- Chapter
On the Role of Reinforcement Learning in Experimental Games: The Cognitive Game Theory Approach
By: Ido Erev and A. E. Roth
- April 1987 (Revised April 1992)
- Background Note
Games of Strategy: An Introduction
An introduction to the formal analysis of strategic situations. Ideas of game trees, backwards induction, and dominated strategies are introduced. The methods of backwards induction to find optimal strategies is related to the method of successive eliminations of... View Details
Krishna, Vijay. "Games of Strategy: An Introduction." Harvard Business School Background Note 187-159, April 1987. (Revised April 1992.)
- January 1982
- Background Note
Constant Sum Games
By: Elon Kohlberg
Keywords: Game Theory
Kohlberg, Elon. "Constant Sum Games." Harvard Business School Background Note 182-113, January 1982.
- 03 Mar 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Cooperative Strategic Games
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
Whether or not game theory has applications for business strategy remains unclear - to date, empirical studies have been too limited to yield any definitive conclusions. In View Details
- 2015
- Working Paper
The Cooperative Solution of Stochastic Games
By: Elon Kohlberg and Abraham Neyman
Building on the work of Nash, Harsanyi, and Shapley, we define a cooperative solution for strategic games that takes account of both the competitive and the cooperative aspects of such games. We prove existence in the general (NTU) case and uniqueness in the TU... View Details
Kohlberg, Elon, and Abraham Neyman. "The Cooperative Solution of Stochastic Games." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-071, March 2015.
- December 1984
- Article
The Evolution of the Labor Market for Medical Interns and Residents: A Case Study in Game Theory
By: A. E. Roth
Roth, A. E. "The Evolution of the Labor Market for Medical Interns and Residents: A Case Study in Game Theory." Journal of Political Economy 92, no. 6 (December 1984): 991–1016.
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory
communities, governmental officials, "and, under some interpretations, the environment, terrorists, blackmailers, and thieves.") But by failing to specify how managers should make the necessary tradeoffs among competing interests, writes Jensen, advocates of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 1998
- Chapter
Can Negotiators Outperform Game Theory?
By: M. H. Bazerman, R. Gibbons, L. Thompson and K. L. McGinn
Bazerman, M. H., R. Gibbons, L. Thompson, and K. L. McGinn. "Can Negotiators Outperform Game Theory?" Chap. 4 in Debating Rationality: Nonrational Aspects of Organizational Decision Making, edited by J. Halpern and R. N. Stern, 78–98. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1998. (Reprinted in A. Rau, E. Sherman, & S. Peppet (Eds.), Processes of Dispute Resolution, Foundation Press, 2002.)