Competition and efficiency is at the core of economic theory. This volume collects papers of leading scholars, which extend the conventional general equilibrium model in important ways: Efficiency and price regulation are studied when markets are incomplete and existence of equilibria in such...

Sebastian Burchhardt develops a game theory model that analyzes the possible behavioral patterns of employees during MA processes and the impact of such patterns on the success of the transaction itself. The result is the development of a principal-multi-agent model that allows for endogenous...

In den letzten Jahrzehnten ist die kooperative Spieltheorie als Analyseinstrument, mit dessen Hilfe das Handeln von Wirtschaftssubjekten untersucht werden kann, immer wichtiger geworden. Tobias Hiller analysiert mit Hilfe der kooperativen Spieltheorie, wie Unternehmenshierarchien auf die...

Nachrichten aus dem Gebiet der Corporate Governance sind fast täglich Bestandteil der Wirtschaftspresse. Dabei nehmen Klagen über astronomische Managementgehälter einerseits und Sorgen um die manipulationsfreie Finanzberichterstattung andererseits breiten Raum ein. Jürgen Hagmüller...

Das Konzept des Franchisings -- Die Modellierung von Dilemmastrukturen -- Die Entstehung von Kooperation -- Positive Analyse - Kausalität zwischen Dilemmastrukturen und Franchising -- Normative Analyse - Ethische Würdigung -- Ergebnisse und Ausblick.

This book focuses on the gradual reform of Chinese society since China’s opening up to the world, and gives a unified explanation of the process based on bargaining theory. It studies institutional changes as a non-violent bargaining process in which different parties constantly make...

This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to multi-agent, multi-choice repetitive games, such as the Kolkata Restaurant Problem and the Minority Game. It explains how the tangible formulations of these games, using stochastic strategies developed by statistical physicists employing...

This state-of-the art collection of papers analyses various aspects of the theory of externalities and public goods. The contributions employ new analytical techniques like the aggregative game approach, and discuss the philosophical underpinnings of the theory. Furthermore, they highlight a...

This textbook connects three vibrant areas at the interface between economics and computer science: algorithmic game theory, computational social choice, and fair division. It thus offers an interdisciplinary treatment of collective decision making from an economic and computational perspective....

This book treats extensive form game theory in full generality. It provides a framework that does not rely on any finiteness assumptions at all, yet covers the finite case. The presentation starts by identifying the appropriate concept of a game tree. This concept represents a synthesis of...