Search for dissertations about: "Coordination Games"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the words Coordination Games.

  2. 1. Games and Markets - Essays on Communication, Coordination and Multi-Market Competition

    Author : Mattias Ganslandt; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; International Arbitrage; Trade Liberalization; Market Access; International Oligopoly; Integrated Markets; Segmented Markets; Economic Integration; Monopolization; Entry Deterrence; Bounded Rationality; Team Behavior; Simplicity; Language; Communication; Strategic Uncertainty; Coordination Games; Equilibrium Selection; Price Discrimination; Externalities; Management of enterprises; Företagsledning; management;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of a collection of essays on coordination in games and competition in international oligopolies. The first essay presents a theoretical analysis of a simple coordination game in which players simultaneously choose efforts from a compact interval. The original game has a continuum of Pareto-ranked equilibria. READ MORE

  4. 2. Strategic Decision-Making in Platoon Coordination

    Author : Alexander Johansson; Jonas Mårtensson; Yafeng Yin; KTH; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Platooning; automated highway systems; intelligent transportation systems; coordination; game theory; optimization; Electrical Engineering; Elektro- och systemteknik;

    Abstract : The need for sustainable transportation solutions is urgent as the demand for mobility of goods and people is expected to multiply in the upcoming decades. One promising solution is truck platooning, which shows great potential in reducing the fuel consumption and operational costs of trucks. READ MORE

  5. 3. Bargaining and Communication in Games

    Author : Ola Andersson; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Repeated Bertrand Games; Communication; Cooperation; Renegotiation; Experiments; Bargaining; Discount factors; Non-cooperative Game Theory;

    Abstract : Chapter 2 investigates an infinitely repeated Bertrand duopoly where firms with different discount factors bargain over which collusive price and market share to implement. The bargaining is modelled as a strategic game and the main results of the paper is that it shows existence of a unique subgame perfect equilibrium and that the least patient firm's equilibrium market share is not monotone in its own discount factor. READ MORE

  6. 4. Externalities and Coordination Failures

    Author : Sebastian Tebbe; Jonathan de Quidt; Robert Östling; Torsten Persson; Ulrich Wagner; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Behavioral Economics; Environmental Economics; Technology Adoption; Transportation; Government Pricing Policy; Experimental Economics; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : Peer Effects in Electric Car Adoption: Evidence from SwedenI study peer effects in the diffusion of electric cars in Sweden. To identify peer effects, I use a shift-share IV design that links the renewal of elapsing individual-level, car leasing contracts (i.e., shift) with the propensity to acquire an electric car based on individual traits (i. READ MORE

  7. 5. Conditioned Strategies in Coordination Games: An Evolutionary Approach

    Author : Peter Engseld; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

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