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Reinhard Selten

Reinhard Selten

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
63
Citations
31672
World Ranking
672
National Ranking
23

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1996 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1994 - Nobel Prize for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games
  • 1994 - Nobel Memorial Prize laureates in Economics for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games.
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Overview

Reinhard Selten was affiliated with the University of Bonn in Germany. Their research contributed to various areas within the social sciences, particularly sociology, political science, management science, operations research, and genetics.

The main topics addressed in their work included:

  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Game Theory and Applications
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics

Several papers authored or co-authored by Reinhard Selten have been published recently. These works were released between 2023 and 2024 in recognized academic venues. The papers include:

  • "Taming Selten's Horse with Impulse Response" (2023, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • "Taming Selten's Horse with Impulse Response" (2024, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • "Taming selten's horse with impulse response" (2024, Games and Economic Behavior)

Frequent co-authors in Selten's collaborative research were:

  • Tibor Neugebauer
  • Abdolkarim Sadrieh
  • Karim Sadrieh

The main publication venues for Selten's recent work were:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Games and Economic Behavior

Selten's contributions were recognized with several awards, including:

  • Nobel Prize in 1994 for pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games
  • Nobel Memorial Prize laureate in Economics in 1994 for the same contribution
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1996
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Best Publications

  • Reexamination of the perfectness concept for equilibrium points in extensive games

    Reinhard Selten

  • Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox

    Gerd Gigerenzer;Reinhard Selten

  • A general theory of equilibrium selection in games

    John C. Harsanyi;Reinhard Selten

  • Bounded rationality: The adaptive toolbox

    Gerd Gigerenzer;Reinhard Selten

  • The chain store paradox

    Reinhard Selten

  • End behavior in sequences of finite Prisoner's Dilemma supergames A learning theory approach

    Reinhard Selten;Rolf Stoecker

  • A generalized Nash solution for two-person bargaining games with incomplete information

    John C. Harsanyi;Reinhard Selten

  • A Note on Evolutionarily Stable Strategies in Asymmetric Animal Conflicts

    Reinhard Selten

  • A simple model of imperfect competition, where 4 are few and 6 are many

    Reinhard Selten

  • AN EXPERIMENTAL SOLIDARITY GAME

    Reinhard Selten;Axel Ockenfels

  • Evolution, learning, and economic behavior

    Reinhard Selten

  • Axiomatic Characterization of the Quadratic Scoring Rule

    Reinhard Selten

  • Aspiration adaptation theory

    Reinhard Selten

  • Game theory and evolutionary biology

    Peter Hammerstein;Reinhard Selten

  • Features of experimentally observed bounded rationality

    Reinhard Selten

  • Evolutionary stability in extensive two-person games

    Reinhard Selten

  • How Payment Systems Affect Physicians' Provision Behaviour – An Experimental Investigation

    Heike Hennig-Schmidt;Reinhard Selten;Daniel Wiesen

  • Duopoly Strategies Programmed by Experienced Players

    Reinhard Selten;Michael Mitzkewitz;Gerald R. Uhlich

  • Commuters route choice behaviour

    Reinhard Selten;Thorsten Chmura;Thomas Pitz;Sebastian Kube

  • A General Theory of Equilibrium Selection in Games.

    Robert Sugden;John C. Harsanyi;Reinhard Selten

  • New Challenges to the Rationality Assumption

    Reinhard Selten

Frequent Co-Authors

John C. Harsanyi
John C. Harsanyi University of California, Berkeley
Myrna Holtz Wooders
Myrna Holtz Wooders Vanderbilt University
Juergen von Hagen
Juergen von Hagen University of Bonn
Werner Güth
Werner Güth Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Axel Ockenfels
Axel Ockenfels University of Cologne
Michael Schreckenberg
Michael Schreckenberg University of Duisburg-Essen
Eyal Winter
Eyal Winter Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jörgen W. Weibull
Jörgen W. Weibull Stockholm School of Economics
Eric van Damme
Eric van Damme Tilburg University
Elke U. Weber
Elke U. Weber Princeton University

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