Verlagstext: Die Spieltheorie befasst sich mit dem strategischen Handeln von Personen, Firmen, Staaten oder anderen Akteuren. Das Buch behandelt die grundlegenden Konzepte anhand von Beispielen aus Politik, Soziologie und Ökonomie. Dabei kommen nicht nur Theorien und Modelle zur Sprache,...

This paper discusses institutional reforms that might strengthen the role of the European Parliament in the policymaking process of the European Union. Using simple game theory, the paper analyzes the working properties of the different implementation procedures that are known as 'comitology'....

Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organizations. One of the problems with the extant literature on positional power in hierarchies is that it is mainly restricted to the analysis of power in terms of the bare positions of the actors. While such an analysis informs us about...

This paper provides a co-operative as well as a non-cooperative analysis of weighted majority games. The co-operative solution concept introduced here, the Stable Demand Set, yields a meaningful selection within the Mas-Colell Bargaining Set, it contains the Core, it eliminates the "dominated"...