John F. Nash Jr. is widely known as the subject of the Oscar-winning film “A Beautiful Mind,” but his contributions to the advancement of human knowledge are far greater. Nash paved the way for game ...

This article examines play calling in the National Football League (NFL). It finds that a mixed strategy equilibrium game explains NFL play calling better than standard optimization techniques. When a ...

My collaboration with Paul fortuitously combined game-theoretic and economic perspectives. It began one afternoon in the fall of 1979 (shortly after Paul joined MEDS from Stanford and I moved to MEDS ...

“All in.” Your opponent slides a stack of chips across the high-stakes poker table. You glance back at your cards, a pair of sixes. The game is Texas Hold’em. Only two of you remain, and no community ...

'Instant Scholar' is a Times of India initiative to make academic research accessible to a wider audience. If you are a Ph.D. scholar and would like to publish a summary of your research in this ...

We consider a simple timing game in which strategic agents select arrival times to a service facility. Agents find congestion costly and hence try to arrive when the system is under-utilized. Working ...