The research of Soviet scientists within the field of game theory has resulted in many high-level publications. This book aims to report about the research by Russian game theorists during the two decades 1968 - 1988 to the international readership. It contains a collection of contributions in...

Stochastic Cooperative Games: Theory and Applications -- Sequencing Games: a Survey -- Game Theory and the Market -- On the Number of Extreme Points of the Core of a Transferable Utility Game -- Consistency and Potentials in Cooperative TU-Games: Sobolev’s Reduced Game Revived -- On the Set of...

Political and economic institutions are typically governed by committees that face the challenge to reconcile the preferences of their members. How should decision rules be designed to generate fair and sustainable agreements, for example if committee members represent groups of different sizes?...

The index of an equilibrium in a game gives information about the `stability` of the equilibrium, for example with respect to game dynamics. Unfortunately, index theory is often very technical. This book presents a new geometric construction that visualises the index in an intuitive way. For...

This volume on experimental economics offers both new research grounds and a bird's eye view on the field. In the first part, leading experimental economists, among them Vernon S. Smith and Daniel Friedman, give inspiring insights into their view on the general development of this field. In the...