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Game Changer - the game theory podcast — 101 episodes
The Missing Middle – How Market Design Gets Built for the Public Sector | with Thilo Klein
Beauty contest – what guessing numbers tells us about Game Theory | with Rosemarie Nagel
Not the Game You Think: Why Cheap Renewables Don't Mean Cheap Electricity | with Natalia Fabra
Clones & Creative Ownership: Economics in the Age of AI | with Annie Liang
Bridging the Gap: From Lab Experiments to Real Behaviour – with Jan Stoop
Optimising for Trouble – Game Theory and AI Safety | with Jobst Heitzig
Political Polarisation – A Game-Theoretic Perspective | with Adam Meirowitz
Cheap talk – Game Theory's insights on communication | with Navin Kartik
How do you decide? – Decision Theory and Uncertainty | with Itzhak Gilboa
Influence Pays – Game Theory for Smarter Workplace Incentives | with Pau Milán
Are equilibria a good predictor for real-life behaviour? | with Colin Camerer
The Power of Connection – A Game Theoretic View on Networks | with Matthew Jackson
Robbing the many to pay the one – game theory and temptation | with Carlos Alós-Ferrer
From First Offer to Final Minute: Lessons from Unstructured Bargaining | with Emin Karagözoğlu
Impact or Innocence? Game Theoretic Clues to Why We Give | with Dennie van Dolder
From Clicks to Chatbots: The Future of Online Advertising | with Dirk Bergemann
Strange Bedfellows: The Game Theory Behind Counterintuitive Alliances | with David Pinsof
Man vs. model – game theoretic insights on AI in auctions | with Vitali Gretschko
Punishment or Pettiness? The Game Theory Behind Spite | with Rory Smead
When Bonuses Backfire: Rethinking Attendance Incentives | with Timo Vogelsang
Too Sure for Our Own Good? The Hidden Cost of Overconfidence | with Philipp Strack
The marriage penalty – how the church rewired cooperation networks | with Jonathan Schulz
Why Climate Agreements Fail: An Innovative Solution Based on Mechanism Design | with Klaus M. Schmidt
Globalization and Protectionism – A Game Theoretic View | with Claudia Steinwender
How to achieve cooperation: Learnings from fieldwork with the Turkana people | with Sarah Mathew
The Truth About Misinformation: Myths, Reality, and Rational Beliefs | with Daniel Williams
Mastering High-Stakes Deals: The Power of Game Theory | with Matthias Schranner & Sebastian Moritz
Can Game Theory help solve international conflicts? – Commitment and Negotiations | with Topi Miettinen
How did morality evolve? - Game Theory, Evolution and Philosophy | with J. McKenzie Alexander
Why We Don't Get the Politicians We Want: On Corruption, Polarization, and Voter Bias | with Raymond Fisman
The Nobel Prize in Economics 2024: How Institutions Shape Development | with Navid Sabet
The game theory behind resolving online disputes | with Selçuk Özyurt
Playing by the rules – a game theoretic view on social norms | with Cristina Bicchieri
Breaking down Brexit – a game theoretic perspective | with Stefaan De Rynck
Are you among the top performing managers? – Overconfidence and its causes | with Collin Raymond
Avoiding Value Drain in Dealmaking – Game Theoretic Strategies | with Paul Papayoanou
Playing the Gene Game: On Genomics, Insurance, and Game Theory | with Eduardo Azevedo
Explaining Loss Aversion using Game Theoretic models | with Greg Kubitz
Us vs. Them: Experiments on group identity| with Yan Chen
Game Theory Goes to School: Strategic Decisions in Young Minds | with Isabelle Brocas
Playing for a Better Society: Game Theory and Civic Responsibility | with Tore Ellingsen
To click or not to click: can we trust sponsored search results? | with Maarten Janssen
Discouraging consumption of sin goods – taxes versus nudges | with Dmitry Taubinsky
Hidden Games: Exploring the rationality of irrational choices | with Moshe Hoffman
Avoid sending mixed signals! – signalling in negotiations and beyond | with Uri Gneezy
The Economist's Brain: Tracing Choices with Neuroeconomic Insights | with Juan D. Carrillo
Feeding America – allocating food to food banks with innovative market mechanisms | with Canice Prendergast
Does opaque AI lead to a catastrophe? – a Game Theorist's view | with Jeffrey Ely
Split or Steal? Experiments on lies and self-deception | with Marta Serra-Garcia
Fortune's Fairness: The Super-Rich's View on Inequality | with Alain Cohn
Union negotiators are Game Theorists – 2023 UAW strike and its outcomes | with Marc Robinson
(Nuclear) Deterrence as a Game Theoretic concept | with Frank Zagare
Would you return a lost wallet? – Economist's perspective on honesty | with Michel Maréchal
In plain sight - why simplicity should be considered in game theoretic concepts | with Shengwu Li
Picking up speed - how companies can make headway in reaching CO2 targets | with Daniel Helmig
Cracking the Code: Incentivising teams in non-routine tasks | with Florian Englmaier
Learning from a negotiation expert - the role of 'tactical empathy' | with Chris Voss
Let's go to the movies! – Game Theory in films | with Santiago Sanchez-Pages
Hidden Gems – Gathering insights from unconventional data sources | with Stefano DellaVigna
Behind the Stars: Uncovering the Biases in Online Reviews | with Tommaso Bondi
A Tale of Two Players: Exploring the Rubinstein Bargaining Model | with Ariel Rubinstein
Can Cash Cloud the Mind? Exploring the Influence of Incentives on Personal Choices | with Sandro Ambühl
Clicking Against the Clock: How time pressure and regret influence our behaviour in online shopping | with Timm Opitz
AI and Regulation: Finding the Sweet Spot for Consumer Welfare | with Keith Chan
From Connections to Careers: On the Impact of Personal Referrals in the Labour Market | with Felix Mylius
The doctor is in! Misguided incentives and regulation in healthcare markets | with Simon Reif
Truth-telling by design: how Market Design can alleviate inequality | with Piotr Dworczak
Why sometimes we are better off not knowing – on information design and Bayesian persuasion | with Emir Kamenica
Putting your money where your mouth is – on commitment in auctions | with Vitali Gretschko
Auctions, bidding strategies and uncertainty | with Bernhard Kasberger
A dangerous game: On Geoengineering and moral hazard | with Gernot Wagner
To share or not to share. Credit, incentives and competition among researchers | with Remco Heesen
How to bid in an auction – with Paul Papayoanou
Celebrating 50 episodes of Game Changer | with Miriam, Simon and Florian
'Would you rather' - what drives our decisions– with Shachar Kariv
Are football players Game Theorists? – scoring the perfect penalty | with Ben Lyttleton
The 2022 Nobel Prize – why the economy needs banks | with Karolin Kirschenmann
Why market designers love NFTs | with Scott Kominers
Do we need a price for damaging the climate? – with Achim Wambach
Talking about a revolution – how Game Theory can predict the stability of political systems | with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Dinner's ready! On Common Knowledge and the value of information | with Christoph Kuzmics
Summer break
Why do we cooperate and help others - Game theory & altruism | with Erez Yoeli
How clever fishermen outsmarted a uniform price auction | with Alex Teytelboym
Think like a Virus! Viewing the Pandemic through the Lens of Game Theory | with Joshua Gans
Cross at red light? – Game Theory in traffic interaction and the impact of autonomously driving vehicles | with Jason Thompson
Digital Players & Future Markets – Game Theory in Machine Learning & Common Ownership topics | with Martin Schmalz
Playing nice – Trust and reputation in Game Theory, eCommerce and vaccinations | with Steve Tadelis
Feeling lucky! – On the game theoretic aspects of lotteries | with Nick Arnosti
"More art than science" – Translating game theoretic predictions into practical recommendations | with Eyal Winter
Backward Induction, Child Penalties and the Gender Pay Gap | with Carlotta Pilgram
Good intentions, bad outcomes: why Game Theory matters in policy making | with Hannah Rubin
What keeps our lights on? Strategic interactions in the electricity market | with Peter Cramton
Chess, computers and game theory | with Daniel King
What Twitter can teach us about identity signaling | with Paul Smaldino
Let's play - how to design mechanisms in board games | with Jamey Stegmaier
Is inequity in society unavoidable? A few lessons from Evolutionary Game Theory | with Cailin O'Connor
How to make an offer the other side cannot refuse | with Lionel Page
Mechanism design explained by one of its founders | with Eric Maskin
How auctions conquered the internet | with Michael Ostrovsky
Cause and effect – or why the 2021 Nobel Prize is nothing less than an empirical revolution | with Paul Hünermund