Congress

About the Event

GAMES 2020, the 6th World Congress of the Game Theory Society, will be held at Budapest Congress & World Trade Center from 19 to 23 July 2021. Game Theory focusses on models of conflict, competition and cooperation, in which the different parties focus on their own individual aims. GAMES 2020 will be co-located with EC’21, the 22nd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation. GAMES 2020 will be held in a hybrid set-up with the first two days on-site and the remaining three days via „Virtual Chair” – an on-line meeting platform.

WHERE

Budapest Congress &
World Trade Center
Budapest, Hungary and
Virtual Chair

WHEN

Monday and Tuesday
July 19-20, 2021, on-site
Wednesday to Friday
July 21 to 23, 2021, on-line

HOSTING INSTITUTION
Centre for Economic and Regional Studies Institute of Economics

Partners

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LOCAL ORGANISER
László Á. Kóczy (KRTK)

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Programme Committee

Jeff Ely (chair) Northwestern
Aniko Öry    Yale
Ayca Kaya    Miami
Anton Tsoy    Toronto
Joao Ramos    USC
Evan Sadler    Columbia
Colin Stewart    Toronto

Takuo Sugaya    Stanford
Olivier Tercieux    PSE
Mira Frick    Yale
Francesc Dilme    Bonn
Luciano Pomatto    Caltech
Daniel Garrett    TSE
Nemanja Antic Northwestern

Ryan Oprea    UCSB
Teddy Kim    Emory
Marina Agranov    Caltech
Ludovic Renou    Queen Mary
Alan Miller

Organising Committee

László Á. Kóczy (chair) KRTK & BME
Fatma Aslan BME
László Csató SZTAKI & Corvinus

Ágnes Cseh KRTK
Péter Csóka Corvinus & CERS
Hubert J. Kiss KRTK & ELTE

Miklós Pintér BME & Corvinus
Róbert Somogyi BME & KRTK
Balázs R. Sziklai KRTK & Corvinus

Game Theory

Game Theory studies the human aspect of decision making. The most profound lesson of the past decades is that incentives do matter. Humans strategize even the most trivial situations – or put in another way – they play games. To calculate the shortest path between two points in the city is a simple optimization problem, knowing that people are aware of this and try different routes to avoid congestion is game theory. When students apply for university, when voters elect a new government, when couples divorce and share their assets it’s all game theory. Ultimately, the question that separates Game Theory from other branches of Economics is not “What is the subject of our study?” but rather “How to study this subject?”. That is, Game Theory is a methodology, a perspective – and looking at the number of Nobel Memorial Prizes distributed to game theorists – a rather successful one.

Organisers

The Centre for Economic and Regional Studies (KRTK) was established on January 1st 2012 with the merger of three academic institutes. The Institute of Economics, the Institute for World Economy and the Institute of Regional Studies remain independent in their scientific activities. They continue to fulfil their public tasks as defined in the Deed of Foundation at the highest scientific level.

An international society for the advancement of game theory and its applications, the Game Theory Society, began operations on January 1, 1999. The Game Theory Society promotes the investigation, teaching, and application of game theory and holds its World Congress every four years. Inter alia, the Game Theory Society recognizes, by prizes and awards, the work of outstanding contributors to the field; acts as a source of reliable information about game theory to the popular media; represents the interests of its members; encourages the development of game theory and its applications in less developed countries and in areas of the world where it is not yet established. The Game Theory Society has two official journals, Games and Economic Behavior and the International Journal of Game Theory.