Program

10th Lancaster Game Theory Conference 2024

This version of the Conference will be in honour of Eyal Winter’s 65th birthday.

 Friday 1st  of November (Lancaster Castle Suite)

11:00 – 11:15 Welcome

11:15 – 12:00 Plenary talk 1
Simon Gaechter (University of Nottingham)
How social relationships affect group cooperation: Evidence from randomly assigned real groups

12:00 – 12:45 Lunch

12:45 – 14:15 Session 1
Alexandros Rigos (Institute for Futures Studies (Stockholm) & Lund University)
Preferences as Heuristics
Claudia Cerrone (City University of London)
Ignorance is Bliss: A Game of Regret
Alessandro Sontuoso (City University of London)
Strategic Problems with Risky Prospects: Modeling and Testing the Impact of Feedback in Complex Interactions

14:15 – 14:45 Coffee Break

14:45 – 15:45 Session 2
Constantine Sorokin (Glasgow University)
Informational Effects in Conflict Escalation
Tamoghna Bose (University of Birmingham)
Efficient Terrorist Networks in the Presence of Infiltration

15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 – 17:00 Plenary talk 2
Eyal Winter (Lancaster University & Hebrew University)
The Research Proposal Game: Herding and Divergent Behaviors in Competition

 Saturday 2nd of November (Lancaster University Management School)

09:30 – 10:15 Plenary talk 3
Klaus Ritzberger (Royal Holloway)
Solid Outcomes in Finite Games

10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 – 12:15 Session 3
Lihui Lin (Lancaster University)
The Spillover Effects of Unfair Workplace on Social Interactions Outside the Workplace
Geoffrey Castillo (Nottingham Trent University)
Cooperation in asymmetric prisoner’s dilemmas: An experimental study
Santiago Sanchez-Pages (King’s College London)
Performance-Based Assessment of Strategic Reasoning: A Recombinant Estimator Approach

12:15 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 13:45 Pleanary talk 4
Rosemarie Nagel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Understanding Human Behavior via Similarity Classes: A Geometric and Rule Based Approach in 2×2 Games

13:45 – 14:15 Coffee break

14:15 – 15:45 Session 4
Sergei Mikhalishchev (Durham University)
Information Aggregation with Costly Information Acquisition
Stephan Jagau (University of Nottingham)
Context-dependent Expected Utility
Josue Ortega (Queen’s University Belfast)
Unimprovable Students in School Choice

15:45 – 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 – 17:00 Plenary talk 5
Carlos Alós-Ferrer (Lancaster University)
Efficient Networks

 

The Lancaster Game Theory Conference 2024 (LGTC2024) is being hosted and funded by the Department of Economics at Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) and  organised by Alexander MatrosKonstantinos Georgalos, David Rietzke and Sonali Sen Gupta.