Below you'll find an overview of the past seminars in this series, specifically those held in 2016. The seminars are listed in reverse chronological order, most recent first.
Monday 14 March
The topic will be Algorithmic Game Theory and we will work on a "Computing Equilibria for 2 Person Games" by Bernhard v.Stengel.
Monday 15 February
In today's session we will have two research project presentations; speakers are Justus Winkelmann (Economics Department, LSE) and Nicola Wittur (Mathematics Department, LSE)
Monday 8 February
In this reading group, we will read the "Electronic Mail Game" by A. Rubinstein and Andrea Pirrone (PhD student, LSE Economics Department) will present it.
In game theory common knowledge of the game played is always assumed. We will see how introducing a weaker condition of almost common knowledge changes the results. We will also talk about the interpretation of the Game Theory Results.
Monday 1 February - Discussion of foundational and philosophical issues in game theory
Tuesday 19 January - Discussion of foundational and philosophical issues in game theory
The first reading was of the classic paper:
Aumann & Brandenburger -- Epistemic conditions for Nash Equilibrium, Econometrica 63(5) (1995), 1161-1180 [web link]