About
The subject of Game Theory is central to the mathematical modeling of the economic situations of conflict and cooperation. The HSE’s Game Theory and Decision Making laboratory aims to develop new bridges between the models of non-cooperative behavior, and the normative concept of cooperation and fair division, in particular in their algorithmic and asymptotic dimensions.
Key areas of research:
- Mechanism design and developing new applications for specific resource allocation problems (cost and/or surplus-sharing).
- Defining new equilibrium concepts in cooperative game theory which analyzes the interaction of players forming and breaking alliances by public and/or secret agreements.
- Analyzing informational effects for dynamic games.
- Developing algorithmic game theory, poised to estimate the complexity of finding equilibrium outcomes.
- Investigating asymptotic properties of large games.
During the period from 2017 to 2019 research fellows of the laboratory published 50 articles, half of them in journals indexed Q1-Q2 at Scopus and Web of Science, including Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Games and Economic Behavior, ACM Economics and Computation, Advances in Mathematics, Economic Theory, International Journal of Game Theory, Public Choice, Social Choice and Welfare, European Journal of Mathematics, Operations Research. We regularly present our results at the best international conferences within our fields of interest such as Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Society for Economic Design, Society for Advancement of Economic Theory, Game Theory Conference at Stony Brook, EEA-ESEM, ACM Economics and Computation.
Each year we host an international conference and a summer school on topics in game theory and mechanism design. Since September 2019 the laboratory has initiated the regular research seminar together with the European University at St. Petersburg and the Steklov Mathematical Institute (PDMI RAS).
GT Lab Internal Seminar on March, 20: Dmitirii Dagaev, Sofia Paklina, Petr Parshakov
Title: A Beauty Contest Experiment with Artificial Players
Speakers: Dmitirii Dagaev (HSE Moscow), Sofia Paklina (HSE Perm), Petr Parshakov (HSE Perm)
Date: March 20, 15.00
Venue: Kantemirovskaya 3/1, 5th floor
GT Lab Internal Seminar on March, 6: Anna Bogomolnaia
Title: Ex Ante Fair Division
Speaker:Anna Bogomolnaia, University of Glasgow
Date & Time: March, 6; 15.00
Where: Kantemirovskaya str 3/1, 5th floor
Game theory Lab Winter Workshop
Speakers: Anna Bogomolnaia (University of Glasgow), Aleksei Kondratiev (HSE aint Petersburg), Ozgur Evren (NES), Shafir Safi (NES), Kivanch Akoz (HSE Moscow), Sergei Stepanov (HSE Moscow), PAvel Andreyanov (HSE Moscow), Emre Dogan (HSE Moscow), Ekaterina Lorits (HSE Saint Petersburg)
Date: February 28th
Venue: Kantemirovskaya 3/1, 5th floor
GT Lab Internal Seminar on December, 6: Dhritiman Gupta
Title: Prize Sharing Rules in Collective Contests: Towards Strategic Foundations
Speaker: Dhritiman Gupta, HSE
Date & Time: December, 6; 15.00
Where: Kantemirovskaya str 3/1, 5th floor
GT Lab Internal Seminar on November 15: Yuliya Veselova
Title: Manipulation of voters of different levels of the cognitive hierarchy under incomplete information
Speaker: Yuliya Veselova, HSE
Date & Time: November,15; 15.00
Where: Kantemirovskaya str 3/1, 5th floor
GT Lab Internal Seminar on November, 8: Sofia Rubtsova
Title: Optimal pricing and matching policy on two-sided platforms in the presence of disintermediation
Speaker: Sofia Rubtsova, HSE
Date & Time: November 8; 15.00
Where: Kantemirovskaya str 3/1, 5th floor
GT Lab Internal Seminar on November,1: Anastasiia Antsygina
Title: Support Networks in Contests
Speaker: Anastasiia Antsygina, HSE
Date & Time: November, 1; 15.00
Where: Kantemirovskaya str 3/1, 5th floor
GT Lab Internal Seminar on October, 25: Vladimir Volkov
Title: Spillover effects in sovereign and corporate credit markets
Speaker: Vladimir Volkov, HSE
Date & Time: October ,25; 15.00
Where: Kantemirovskaya str 3/1, 5th floor
GT Lab Internal Seminar: September 20: Dariia Kurchatova
Title: Manipulations in procurement: scoring auctions
Date & Time: September, 20 at 3 PM
Where: Kantemirovskaya str 3/1, 5th floor
GT Lab Internal Seminar on September, 20: Tatiana Mayskaya
Title: The Effect of Mergers on Innovations
Speaker: Tatiana Mayskaya, HSE
Date & Time: September, 20; 15.00
Where: Kantemirovskaya str 3/1, 5th floor