Game Changer - the game theory podcast

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Game theory as a time booster: How market design helps to reduce development time for a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 | with Marcus Schreiber

Dec 22, 2020

We discuss with TWS Partners’ CEO Marcus Schreiber which economic reasons led to the impressively short development time for a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2.
Marcus describes that risk mitigation and clever incentive structures set by the governments significantly contributed to this success story. This can be seen as a...

Game theory – or why prisoners should learn to cooperate | with Abhinay Muthoo

Dec 8, 2020

We discuss with Professor of Economics Abhinay Muthoo, University of Warwick, a fundamental model of game theory: the Prisoners Dilemma. We not only explore its theoretical background but even more how it can demonstrate and explain rather complex behaviours in business and everyday life.