Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

So you’re standing at the edge of a cliff, chained by the ankle to someone else. You’ll be released, and one of you will get a large prize, as soon as the other gives in. How do you persuade the other ...

Human behavior drives the evolution of biological organisms in ways that can profoundly adversely impact human welfare. Understanding people's incentives when they do so is essential to identify ...

Vol. 195, No. 2, Special Issue on GAMES, INTERACTIVE RATIONALITY, AND LEARNING: THE EVOLUTION OF INFERENCE (February 2018), pp. 835-862 (28 pages) In this paper we present a new proposal for defining ...

“They’ve been talked about as likely winners for a long time now, so it’s not really a huge surprise they’ve been chosen,” Princeton economics professor Dilip Abreu GS ’83 said. “It was a matter of ...

In its negotiations on the two key infrastructure bills, Congress members are utilizing the classic economic concept of game theory to outmaneuver one another. We look at what this federal ...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is five months old, and no clear end is in sight. As the invasion turns into a long-term war, it’s time to think strategically about what can be done now to manage and ...