When species coevolve, the one that adapts slower effectively commits and may be better off.

Discusses how the reality TV show's many strategic challenges can be analyzed with game theory.

Collective herding in Mongolia suffers the tragedy of the commons as some leaders call for privatization.

Argues that Saddam Hussein is rational and deterrence may be achieved through credible commitment.

Blue Jays trained to play the prisoner's dilemma appear to adopt a tit-for-tat strategy, leading to cooperation.

Rupert Murdoch's success in business is partly the result of "understanding how game theory shaped deal negotiations and inter-firm competition" (by Alex Burns)

Describes a Bayesian approach to filtering spam from users' mailboxes.

Suggests that a Medicare prescription benefit would result in financial troubles due to adverse selection.

The Federal Reserve's stimulus policies present a moral hazard.

The game of adding pork to important legislation through bill riders represents a political game of chicken.

Hundreds of competitors at the World Rock Paper Scissors Society add a heuristic approach to mixed strategies.

Compatibility of hardware and software is a prisoner's dilemma, resolved by the adoption of standards.

Timothy Belden, at the center of the Enron scandal, studied game theory at Berkeley.

John Nash acts as expert witness in support of game theory in the court room.

Describes at length research noting that deterrence in international relations requires fending off only select attacks.

Auditing tax payers requires mixed strategies but greater enforcement costs require proportionally greater funding.

Short commentary argues most poker players decide on a whim, not optimal mixed strategies.

Discusses different voting systems and how the outcomes depend greatly on the specific rules employed.

Paul Romer's findins that teams should punt less often given the odds criticized by professional coaches.

Tetris, the addictive computer game, is not only hard, it is NP-complete.

Since security is a public good, developing secure protocols is a tragedy of the commons. (by William Jackson)

Applauds U.S.-style antitrust laws that provide immunity to cartel members who come forward as a "clever use of game theory" creating a race to cooperate.

Philosopher offers resolution to prisoner's dilemma relying on the establishment of "social identities."

Global overfishing and a dwindling supply of fish the result of a tragedy of the commons.

Payoffs may encourage copy-cats, a moral hazard but may be worth considering if the threat is sufficiently credible

Argues Kissinger's foreign policy based on zero-sum game theory.

Local columnist blames the field of game theory for the existence of unethical behavior.

Applies minimax solution concepts to zero-sum casino games.

Association of Coffee Producing Countries fails to maintain prices and cooperation, abandons collusion.

Joe Paterno's seeming irrationality may be commitment device to instill fear in officials.

Nobel prize awarded for pioneering work in experimental economics and behavioral game theory.

Nobel prize awarded for pioneering work in experimental economics and behavioral game theory.

The demise of the digital video technology demonstrates the first mover disadvantage in technology.

The repeated prisoner's dilemma of OPEC cooperation is unstable.

Provides algorithms for modeling complexity: boundedly rational agents playing repeated congestion games

Quantum computing holds a solution to the prisoner's dilemma and other games, physicists show. (by Chiu Fan Lee and Neil F Johnson)

Prescription drug coverage proposals face adverse selection problems as healthy less likely to sign on.

Alan Dershowitz argues that a credible commitment not to negotiate with terrorists decreases terrorist attacks.

Union uses mixed strategies in threatening slowdowns to gain upper hand in negotation

Economists design market mechanisms including auctions and the National Resident Matching Program.

American football coaches should punt less often, given the odds.

International monetary fund bail-outs cause moral hazard, bad investments (by Philip Thornton)

Overbidding in auctions and quantal response equilibria.

The game of Go is deceptively simple to learn but challenging for even a computer to play.

Argues for interdisciplinary approaches to game theory to replace rational paradigms.

How stock option bonuses can align incentives of shareholders and executives.

Stock options create a moral hazard, incentives for short-term stock price spikes.

Considers whether historical figures in politics and business satisfy the assumptions of homo economicus, and notes that the definition is quite similar to that of a sociopath. (by John Kay)

Discusses the rising business of software for managing incentive pay of sales forces.

Explores the commitment of marriage and its higher success rate than cohabitation.

Psychiatrists note that cooperation in the prisoner's dilemma is part of innate altruism.

Psychiatrists note that cooperation in the prisoner's dilemma is part of innate altruism.

Terrorists' strategic response to new defenses must be considered in formulating policy and estimating risk.

Examines the role of the winner's curse in auctions for cell phones and IPOs.

Describes simulations of the minority game, a congestion game in which one prefers not to be part of the crowd.

Discusses game theory's contribution to evolutionary cooperation, noting the role of anonymity, repeated play, and kinship.

Can sucide bombers be explained as hawks among doves ? An evolutionary psychology viewpoint.

An introduction to social struggle as a prisoner's dilemma in which the role of government is to devise the right game to be played. (by Alejandro Reuss)

Econophysics tries to explain market movement melding adaptive systems resarch with behavioral game theory.

Argues for an unregulated radio spectrum, without auctions distributing licenses for cell phones. (by Chris Anderson)

Understanding the mixed strategy game of target selection and defense helps quantify risk.

Considers the relationship between credit histories and moral hazard in the insurance industry. (by Reginald Shareef)

Quantum computing holds a solution to the prisoner's dilemma, physicists show.

Price wars are often not sustainable and value-pricing may be a better proposition.

Argues that the Federal Reserve's economy-bolstering actions create a moral hazard.

Movie studios and movie rental stores are embroiled in a game of chicken according to executives.

Globalization has transformed relationships into non-zero sum games

Disequilibrium play in the traveler's dilemma and games with mixed strategies

Generic drug makes paid not to produce generics in cooperation among pharmaceutical manufacturers.

Soccer coaches substitute players too late in the game according to new mathematical models.

How movie studios signal the dates of movie releases to avoid heavy competition.

In an election year, which party will blink first in game of chicken over tax cuts and benefits?

Notes the need to consider strategic moves by current partners, including post-contractual hold up and moral hazard.

Encryption: the web is a one-shot, not an iterated prisoner's dilemma

The tragedy of the commons may be resolved through indirect reciprocity.

Applications of Thaler's research on risk tolerance and rationality to poker

Cooperative hunting and meat-sharing analyzed as a cooperative game and a negotiation.

Human altruistic tendencies result in punishing free-riders, potentially resolving the tragedy of the commons. (by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis)

Baseball players are like oil wells, in that poor bidding strategy for either leads to the winner's curse. (by David Marasco)

Lack of uniformity across European Euro coins leads to different odds of heads and tails in different countries. (by Debora MacKenzie)

German auction for new-generation mobile licenses

Physicists argue that irrationality leads to exploitable patterns in the stock market. (by Mark Buchanan)

Deposit insurance agency may introduce moral hazard by charging the same premiums from all institutions regardless of risk.