Games

2009 - 2026

Current editor(s): Ms. Susie Huang

From MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

Volume 17, issue 5, 2026

The Last Costly Signal: How Generative AI Collapses Competence Signaling and Why Liability Sustains Markets for Expert Services pp. 1-39

Andreas Bauer

The Trap of Incomplete Information Games in the Attention Economy: A Simulation Study of Network Collapse and Restoration Strategies for Informational Hygiene pp. 1-16

Yasuko Kawahata and Shunsuke Hatadani

Cooperation During the Gezi Park Protests pp. 1-28

Benjamin Beranek

Patient-Level Costing, Strategic Reimbursement, and Budget-Constrained Coverage in Rare Diseases: A TDABC-Based Analysis of Severe Haemophilia A pp. 1-31

Tânia Saraiva and Tiago José Leite Cardoso

Nonlinear Dynamics of Social Exclusion via a Dynamic Extension of the Classical “Market for Lemons” Theory: Scapegoating as a Critical Phenomenon and Optimal Intervention Strategies pp. 1-19

Yasuko Kawahata

When Can the Weaker Player Win? A Game-Theoretic Model of Humans Against a More Powerful AI pp. 1-19

Iman Vakilinia

Carbon Border Adjustment and Strategic Environmental Quality: Quality Backfire and Market Contraction pp. 1-33

Subhadip Ghosh, Anindita Sen and Arka Mukherjee

Research on the Game Dynamics of Optional Public Goods pp. 1-14

Haocheng Wu, Mengcheng Sun, Luhe Yang, Yunhua Xue and Lianzhong Zhang

Bride Price, Circumstance-Contingent Repayment, and Marital Investment in China: A Two-Stage Investment and Nash Bargaining Model pp. 1-25

Wenjun Fan and Yong Yoon

Volume 17, issue 4, 2026

Endogenous Agreement Geometry in Nash Bargaining over a Continuum of Issues pp. 1-27

Alessio Staffini

Credence Goods in Markets with Collective Reputation: Nature of Equilibria and the Value of Certification pp. 1-21

Erin Krupka, Thomas P. Lyon and Arnab Mitra

An Extreme Learning Machine-Based Method for Solving Linear–Quadratic Nonzero-Sum Differential Games pp. 1-21

Changdong Duan and Yuefei Yuan

Inefficient Learning Leads to Efficient Coordination: A Repeated Stag-Hunt Game with Learning Agents pp. 1-18

Ren Manfredi, Daniele Vilone, Tijan J. Cvetkovic, Franco Bagnoli and Andrea Guazzini

Efficient Favouritism with Status Incentives: A Moral-Hazard Game of Delegation and Recognition pp. 1-25

Swapnendu Banerjee, Oindrila Dey and Subhadip Ghosh

Promotion Thresholds, Revenue Sharing, and Delivery Risk in Reward-Based Crowdfunding pp. 1-43

Joyaditya Laik, Esther Gal-Or and Prakash Mirchandani

Engineered Misunderstanding Under Psychological Warfare: A Bayesian Signaling Game of Felt-Understanding Collapse in the German Atomausstieg pp. 1-34

Ryanne R. L. Fairchild

Markovian Analysis of a Small Population Evolutionary Prisoner’s Dilemma Game pp. 1-22

Athanasios Kehagias

Decentralized, Efficient, and Fair: Mean-Field Predictive Control for Bidirectional EV Coordination Under Uncertainty pp. 1-39

Samuel M. Muhindo

Fixed-Time Pursuit–Evasion Differential Game with Grönwall Constraints in Hilbert Space l 2 pp. 1-15

Gafurjan Ibragimov, Saidakbar Gulomov and Bruno Antonio Pansera

Volume 17, issue 3, 2026

Do Downstream Firms Strategically Accept Upstream Equity Participation? pp. 1-14

Chiu-Hui Li and Jen-Yao Lee

Nonlinear Dynamics of Evolutionary Public Goods Games with Consistent- and Inconsistent-Moral-Standard Exclusive Sanctions pp. 1-14

Yang Chen and Xiaofeng Wang

A Provable Semi-Infinite Programming Approach for Solving Constrained Dynamic Games pp. 1-20

Tyler C. Gardner, Matthew W. Harris and Logan Lancaster

When Context Shapes Preferences: Norm Erosion and Context-Dependent Fairness Concerns in Public Goods Games pp. 1-24

Chanalak Chaisrilak and Thanee Chaiwat

A Dynamic Game Model to Estimate Market Competitiveness: An Application to the Chinese Retail Oil Market pp. 1-18

Ying Zheng, Jiayi Xu and Xiao-Bing Zhang

Politically Dangerous Minds: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Vygotsky, Luria, and the Socially Mediated Survival of Knowledge pp. 1-18

Ryanne R. L. Fairchild

The Relationships Between Oil, Critical Minerals, and Military Expenditure: Evidence from the U.S. and China pp. 1-21

Luccas Attílio, Joao Faria, Mauro Rodrigues and Emilson Silva

Relative Consumption as Fitness: A Replicator–Mutator Model of Reference-Dependent Demand and Status Competition pp. 1-12

Aras Yolusever

Diffusion Mechanism of Regional Collaborative Strategy in Public Health Emergencies Considering Vertical Intervention pp. 1-25

Xiaoli Li and Luo Wu

The Effect of Competition on Dishonesty, Trade, and Consumer Trust pp. 1-34

Silvia Martinez-Gorricho

Game Theory Narratives of the Three-Body Trilogy pp. 1-13

Noemí Navarro and Jean-Christophe Pereau

Search Costs, Hassle Costs, and Drip Pricing: Equilibria with Rational Consumers and Firms pp. 1-17

Michael Baye and John Morgan

A Cooperative Pollution Control Differential Game with Randomly Switching Payoffs pp. 1-17

Feiran Xu and Anna Tur

Volume 17, issue 2, 2026

Monopoly and Endogenous Single Highest Quality pp. 1-17

Amit Gayer

Platform Empowerment and Digital Inclusion in Industrial Clusters: A Complex Network Game Analysis with Performance Feedback pp. 1-28

Dingteng Wang, Chengwei Liu and Shuping Wang

The Correlated Response Technique: Estimation, Incentives, and Comparison with Randomized Response at Equal Statistical Precision pp. 1-22

Timothy Flannery

Cooperation or Confrontation? An Evolutionary Game Study on Content Clipping Authorization in Live Streaming E-Commerce Under Platform Regulation pp. 1-36

Feng Luo, Xinmiao Zhao and Tiantong Xu

A Generalized Nash Equilibrium Approach to the Inverse Eigenvector Centrality Problem pp. 1-19

Mauro Passacantando and Fabio Raciti

Measuring Pitcher Production Fairly in Baseball Using the Shapley Value pp. 1-23

Michael McBride

Cooperation Collapse in the Harmony Game: Revisiting Scodel and Minas Through Evolutionary Game Theory pp. 1-12

Shade T. Shutters

How to Sell Debt (But Not Money) pp. 1-20

Arup Daripa

Volume 17, issue 1, 2026

Quadratic Programming Approach for Nash Equilibrium Computation in Multiplayer Imperfect-Information Games pp. 1-12

Sam Ganzfried

On Collusion Sustainability and the Elasticity of Substitution pp. 1-9

Marc Escrihuela-Villar

Randomized Algorithms and Neural Networks for Communication-Free Multiagent Singleton Set Cover pp. 1-23

Guanchu He, Colton Hill, Joshua H. Seaton and Philip N. Brown

Monetary Policy Committees, Independence, and Influence pp. 1-23

Esteban Colla-De-Robertis

Equal Chances or Fewer Victims? Moral Judgments in Autonomous Vehicle Dilemmas pp. 1-14

Alexander Matros, Eren Bilen and Leonid Matros

All-Pay Auctions with Different Forfeits pp. 1-14

Benjamin Kang and James Unwin

Endowment Inequality in Common Pool Resource Games: An Experimental Analysis pp. 1-21

Garrett Milam and Andrew Monaco

Communication and Standoff pp. 1-17

Catherine Hafer

A Structural Measure of Bargaining Fragility in Multi-Domain Agreements pp. 1-16

Robert Castro

Strategy-Proof Mechanism Design with Boundedly Rational Agents: Theory and Experiment pp. 1-35

Katsuhiko Nishizaki

Fair Division of Indivisible Items: Envy-Freeness vs. Efficiency Revisited pp. 1-10

Steven J. Brams, D. Marc Kilgour and Christian Klamler

Exclusionary Contracts and Incentives to Innovate pp. 1-19

Simen Ulsaker