In einem strategischen Spiel gibt es stets mehrere autonom entscheidende Akteure, die ihre individuellen Interessen verfolgen. Jede soziale Konfliktsituation mit opportunistisch handelnden Individuen erweist sich daher als strategisches Spiel. In diesem Lehrbuch werden strategische Spiele exakt...

Das vorliegende Buch ist ein einführender Text in die nicht-kooperative Spieltheorie, der in erster Linie diejenigen Studenten im vertiefenden Teil des Bachelor Studiums oder des Master Studiums ansprechen soll, die Freude an präziser Modellierung haben. Neben den Grundlagen der Normalform-...

This book develops a general solution concept for strategic games which resolves strategic uncertainty completely. The concept is described by a mathematically formulated solution procedure and illustrated by applying it to many interesting examples. A long nontechnical introduction tries to...

In capacity-then-price-setting games, soft capacity constraints are planned sales amounts where producing above capacity is possible but more costly. While the subgame perfect equilibrium predicts equal prices, experimental evidence often reveals price discrepancies. This failure to coordinate...

Experimental studies of the WTP-WTA gap avoid social trading by implementing an incentive compatible mechanism for each individual trader. We compare a traditional random price mechanism and a novel elicitation mechanism preserving social trading, without sacrificing mutual incentive...

We modify the Acquiring-a-Company game to study lying in ultimatum bargaining. Privately informed sellers send messages about the alleged value of their company to potential buyers. Via random information leaks, buyers can learn the true value before proposing a price which the seller finally...

Institutions may rely on fundamental principles, e.g., of legal philosophy, but may also have evolved according to institutional fitness, as gauged by a society's well-being. In our stylized framework where two fundamental principles, equality and efficiency, conflict with each other, one of the...