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, market 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.
- Collective decision-making and social choice.
- Developing algorithmic game theory, poised to estimate the complexity of finding equilibrium outcomes.
Since the inception of the Lab in 2015, research fellows of the Lab published 200 papers, many of them in leading journals (indexed Q1-Q2 at Scopus and Web of Science) including Nature, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review: Insights, Journal of Economic Theory, Theoretical Economics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Games and Economic Behavior, Advances in Mathematics, Economic Theory, International Journal of Game Theory, Public Choice, Social Choice and Welfare, European Journal of Mathematics, Operations Research, Management Science, European Journal of Operational Research, and Omega. 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, and in leading computer science conferences: ACM EC, AAAI, AAMAS, NIPS, ECAI, IJCAI.
Each year we host international conferences, summer schools and internship programs on topics in game theory, mechanism design and related fields.
Dmitry Ivanov was awarded a PhD in Computer Science
On December 27, 2024, Dmitry Igorevich Ivanov defended his PhD thesis on the topic "Application of Machine Learning to Game-Theoretical Problems: Auctions and Markov Games". By decision of the dissertation council on January 30, 2025, Dmitry Igorevich Ivanov was awarded a PhD in Computer Science
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Alexander S. Nesterov addressed the Committee for Economic Policy and Strategic Planning of St. Petersburg
On January 29, 2025, an expanded meeting of the Committee for Economic Policy and Strategic Planning of St. Petersburg "Results of the economic development of St. Petersburg. An inside and outside view." was held. The laboratory head , Alexander S. Nesterov, spoke on behalf of the HSE - St. Petersburg.
Games and Graphs: The Third Internship at the International Game Theory Laboratory
From July 15, 2024 to August 12, 2024, a summer internship for mathematics students was held at the International Laboratory of Game Theory and Decision Making and the Center for Market Studies and Spatial Economics
Семинар лаборатории теории игр и принятия решений, 25 июня: Jackie Zhang
Title: Optimal incentives for innovation adoption
Presenter: Jackie Zhang, Assistant Professor at Xiamen University
Date & Time: June 25, 1 PM
Where: Kantemirovskaya str 3/1, 5th floor
Title: School choice problem with externalities, weak strategic properties of decision mechanisms on the example of a rank-minimizing algorithmPresenter: Andrei V. Belykh, University of Naples Federico IIDate & Time: June 24, 2 PMWhere: Kantemirovskaya str 3/1, 5th floor
Тема: Проблема выбора школы с экстерналиями, слабые стратегические свойства механизмов решения на примере ранг-минимизирующего алгоритма
Докладчик: Андрей Белых, University of Naples Federico II
Дата и время: 24 июня, 14.00
Место: Кантемировская 3/1, 5 этаж
GT Lab Internal Seminar, June 11 - Rustamdjan Hakimov
Title: AI vs HR: A Field Experiment on Hiring
Presenter: Rustamdjan Hakimov, Associate Professor at the University of Lausanne
Date & Time: June 11, 1 PM
Where: Kantemirovskaya str 3/1, 5th floor
GT Lab Internal Seminar, May 15: Debasis Mishra
Title: Undominated monopoly regulation
Speaker: Debasis Mishra, Professor in the Economics and Planning Unit at Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
Date & Time: May 15, 3 PM
Where: Kantemirovskaya str 3/1, 5th floor
GT Lab Internal Seminar on March, 20: Dmitirii Dagaev, Sofia Paklina, Petr Parshakov
Title: A Beauty Contest Experiment with Artificial Players
Speakers: Dmitirii Dagaev (HSE Moscow), Sofia Paklina (HSE Perm), Petr Parshakov (HSE Perm)
Date: March 20, 15.00
Venue: Kantemirovskaya 3/1, 5th floor