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).
St.Petersburg Economic seminar (HSE, EU, PDMI) on December, 12: Rick Van der Ploeg (University of Oxford)
Topic: Harnessing and Managing Natural Resource Windfalls
Date & Time: December, 12; 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: St Petersburg, Fontanka river embankment, 27, PDMI RAS, Marble hall (2nd floor)
St.Petersburg Economic seminar (HSE, EU, PDMI) on December, 05: Roman Zakharenko (HSE Moscow)
Topic: Traffic Priority Mechanisms
Date & Time: December, 05; 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: St Petersburg, Fontanka river embankment, 27, PDMI RAS, Marble hall (2nd floor)
St.Petersburg Economic seminar (HSE, EU, PDMI) on November, 28: Mark Levin (HSE Moscow)
Topic: Club Goods, Manipulation and the Digital Economy
Date & Time: November, 28; 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: St Petersburg, Fontanka river embankment, 27, PDMI RAS, Marble hall (2nd floor)
Working language: Russian
St.Petersburg Economic seminar (HSE, EU, PDMI) on November, 21: Zuzana Fungacova (Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT))
Topic: Political Cycles and Bank Lending in Russia
Date & Time: November, 21; 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: St Petersburg, Fontanka river embankment, 27, PDMI RAS, Marble hall (2nd floor)
St.Petersburg Economic seminar (HSE, EU, PDMI) on November, 14: Mikhail Panov (HSE St.Petersburg)
Topic: Agreements in Continuous Time
Date & Time: November, 14; 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: St Petersburg, Fontanka river embankment, 27, PDMI RAS, Marble hall (2nd floor)
HSE SPb & EUSP Research Seminar on November, 07: Bohumil Stadnik (University of Economics in Prague)
Topic: Where Is the Trouble of Black–Scholes?
Date & Time: November, 07; 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: St Petersburg, Fontanka river embankment, 27, PDMI RAS, Marble hall (2nd floor)
HSE SPb & EUSP Research Seminar on October, 31: Hubert Kempf (Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, HSE Moscow, CES-Ifo)
Topic: Monetary union as an international monetary system
Date & Time: October, 31; 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: St Petersburg, Fontanka river embankment, 27, PDMI RAS, Marble hall (2nd floor)
HSE SPb & EUSP Research Seminar on October, 24: Mikhail Pakhnin (European University at St. Petersburg)
Topic: On Hyperbolic Discounting and Observational Equivalence
Date & Time: October, 24; 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: St Petersburg, Fontanka river embankment, 27, PDMI RAS, Marble hall (2nd floor)
HSE SPb & EUSP Research Seminar on October, 17: Herve Moulin (University of Glasgow)
Topic: Guarantees in Fair Division: beyond Divide and Choose and Moving Knives
Date & Time: October, 17; 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: St Petersburg, Fontanka river embankment, 27, PDMI RAS, Marble hall (2nd floor)
HSE SPb & EUSP Research Seminar on October, 3: Philip Ushchev (HSE)
Topic: Social Norms in Networks (joint with Yves Zenou, Monash University)
Date & Time: October, 3; 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: St Petersburg, Fontanka river embankment, 27, PDMI RAS, Marble hall (2nd floor)