Corvinus Game Theory Seminar

March 19 (Thursday) 10:15-11:15, room C.510 (new building, 5th floor) Tamás Fleiner (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) Yet another proof of the Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem One of the fundamental results of social choice theory is Arrow’s impossibility theorem, which states Continue Reading …

Corvinus Game Theory Seminar

February 26 (Thursday) (10:00-11:00) room C.510 (new building, 5th floor) Ákos Balázs (Corvinus University of Budapest) Generalised solution concepts in games without expected utility We propose a general framework for strategic interaction that relaxes the expected utility assumption and instead Continue Reading …

Corvinus Game Theory Seminar

February 19 (Thursday) (10:00-11:00) room C.510 (new building, 5th floor) Emil Horobeț (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania) The geometry of higher-order modern portfolio theory In this talk, we present a generalized modern portfolio theory with utility functions admitting higher-order cumulants. Continue Reading …

Corvinus Game Theory Seminar

December 4 (Wednesday) (10:00-11:00) room C.510 (new building, 5th floor) Pinaki Mandal (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) Equivalence between individual and group strategy-proofness under stability When policymakers implement mechanisms in real-world institutions, they often prefer strategy-proof mechanisms over manipulable Continue Reading …

Corvinus Game Theory Seminar

November 26 (Wednesday) (10:00-11:00) room E.118.2 (main building, 1st floor) Tamás Titkos (Corvinus University) Metric symmetries of Wasserstein spaces In recent decades, the theory of optimal transport has advanced rapidly, finding an ever-growing range of applications (including even game theory). Continue Reading …

Corvinus Game Theory Seminar

November 13 (10:00-11:00) room C.510 (new building, 5th floor) Tom Demeulemeester (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) Pairwise efficiency and monotonicity imply Pareto efficiency in (probabilistic) object allocation We consider object allocation problems with capacities (see, e.g., Abdulkadiroglu and Sönmez, 1998; Basteck, Continue Reading …

Corvinus Game Theory Seminar

November 6 (10:00-11:00) room C.510 (new building, 5th floor) Gergely Kiss (Corvinus University) Quasi-arithmetic means, quasi-sums, and bisymmetry with and without regularity assumption Bisymmetry equation first appears in works of János Aczél, where it gains importance in the characterization of quasi-arithmetic Continue Reading …