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Game Theory in Economics: Recent Advances in Spatial Competition

edited by Stefano Colombo

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6207 | Submission Open

Keywords: spatial competition; game theory; Hotelling; Salop; horizontal differentiation; vertical differentiation; static games; repeated games; Stackelberg games ; entry games; cooperative games; firms' location; urban agglomeration; horizontal differentiation; vertical differentiation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Game Theory)

Conflict and Communication: Applications of Game Theory to Political Economy

edited by Dimitri Landa and Le Bihan Patrick

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5511 | Submission Open

Keywords: communication; conflict; soft and hard information; political economy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Game Theory)

Selected Papers from The 1st International Electronic Conference on Games (IECGA2025)

edited by

Kjell Hausken

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 1160 | Submission Open

Keywords: mechanism design; computational game theory; algorithmic game theory; game theory in artificial intelligence; auctions; cooperative games; shapley value; cooperative game theoretic solutions; behavioral game theory; school choice; market design; and others

Game Theory and Competition Policy

edited by Heiko Gerlach

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 863 | Submission Open

Keywords: competition policy; game theory; merger analysis; monopolization; cartels; regulation; regulation of platforms; two-sided markets; data privacy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Game Theory)

Spatial Games

edited by

Pedro Henrique Triguis Schimit

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 503 | Submission Open

Keywords: evolutionary games on lattices; graphs; and hypergraphs; public goods; common pool; or anti-coordination games in spatial settings; co-evolution of strategy and network topology; mobility; metapopulation structure; and dispersal in game– theoretic models; spatial competition and location games in economics and ecology; stochastic and statistical– physics approaches to spatial dilemmas; PDE and reaction– diffusion formulations of spatial games; multilayer; temporal; and adaptive networks in strategic interaction; experimental or empirical studies of spatially structured games; methodological advances: agent-based simulations; high-performance computing; and data-driven calibration of spatial game models

Dynamic Game Theory in Sustainability

edited by

Subhadip Ghosh

and Arka Mukherjee

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 267 | Submission Open

Keywords: nash equilibrium in dynamic settings; stackelberg game; differential games; evolutionary game theory; climate change mitigation; common-pool resource management; intergenerational equity; transboundary pollution; mechanism design for sustainability; renewable resource dynamics; environmental regulation; feedback strategies; public goods games

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Game Theory)

Economic Theory and Applications

edited by

Theofanis Tsoulouhas

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 244 | Submission Open

Keywords: asymmetric information; game theory; auction theory; contract theory; tournament theory; contest theory; economics of information; expected and non-expected utility theories; behavioral economics

Recent Advances in Microeconomics and Game Theory

edited by

Arnaud Z. Dragicevic

submission deadline 29 May 2026 | Viewed by 464 | Submission Open

Keywords: algorithmic game theory; network formation; behavioral economics; experimental economics; mechanism design; dynamic games; market design; evolutionary games; artificial intelligence; climate games

Recent Advances in Network and Graphical Games

edited by Nizar Allouch, Mingyan Liu and

Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 688 | Submission Open

Keywords: strategic interactions; networks; graphical games; Nash equilibrium; computation

Evolutionary Games on Networks and Biological Systems

edited by Kalliopi Kastampolidou

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 256 | Submission Open

Keywords: evolutionary game theory; complex networks; replicator dynamics; microbial public goods games; virus– host interaction models; public-goods and prisoner’ s dilemma in biology; quantum evolutionary games; quantum automata and game protocols; ML-driven and knowledge-graph game models; cooperation dynamics; network reciprocity; spatial reciprocity; altruism evolution; cooperative behavior in structured populations; multi-level selection; adaptive networks; co-evolutionary dynamics; stochastic evolutionary dynamics; agent-based modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Game Theory)

Advancements in Social Choice and Mechanism Design

edited by

Stefano Vannucci

submission deadline 1 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 202 | Submission Open

Keywords: aggregation protocols; voting systems; matching protocols; allocation rules; auction protocols; classification and identification protocols; deliberative decision-making procedures; communication and bargaining protocols

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Game Theory)

Game-Theoretical Analysis of the Division of Labor and Trade Conflict

edited by

Guang-Zhen Sun

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 365 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-cooperative games; conflict; the division of labor; rent seeking; globalization; tariffs

The Mathematics of Uncertainty in Game Theory

edited by

Giuseppe De Marco

, Maria Romaniello and Alba Roviello

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 222 | Submission Open

Keywords: game theory; ambiguity; imprecise probabilities; noncooperative games; psychological games; general equilibrium; insurance mathematics

Decision Making Under Complexity

edited by

Jianying Qiu

and Zhihua Li

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 112 | Submission Open

Keywords: complexity; uncertainty; ambiguity; complex strategy; biases; noises

(This special issue belongs to the Section Behavioral and Experimental Game Theory)

Advances in Contest Theory: Strategic Foundations and Mechanism Design

edited by Jun Zhang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 245 | Submission Open

Keywords: contest theory ; all-pay auctions; rent-seeking models; tournaments; prize optimization; asymmetric contests; entry and participation decisions; information structures; dynamic and stochastic contests; multi-stage competition

Games with Incomplete Information

edited by

Yasuko Kawahata

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 167 | Submission Open

Keywords: game theory; incomplete information; complete information; network analysis; AI/Bots; information fatigue; informational health; discourse conflict; social stability; mathematical modeling; simulation; reputational risk management; lookism; doomscrolling; mental health; human behaviors; critical thinking

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Game Theory)

Game Theory, Sports and Athletes’ Behavior Under Pressure

edited by

Jonathan Newton

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2196 | Submission Open

Keywords: game theory; sports analytics; athletes’ behavior under pressure; strategically optimal play; evolutionary game theory and sports; performance analysis; behavioral economics in sports; tactics and strategy in sports; violations of optimal play

(This special issue belongs to the Section Learning and Evolution in Games)

New Advances in Computational Game Theory and Its Applications

edited by

Sam Ganzfried

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 120 | Submission Open

Keywords: Nash equilibrium computation and approximation; computation of equilibrium refinements; alternative solution concepts and their computation; learning in games; stochastic games; imperfect information; applications including security; biology; education; law; and political science

(This special issue belongs to the Section Algorithmic and Computational Game Theory)

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