Case Studies

Cold War, OPEC, climate, market design, sports, poker — theory meets historical reality.
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Case Studies

Cold War, OPEC, climate, market design, sports, poker — theory meets historical reality.

Climate coalition formation — cooperative game theory and the stability of international agreements

case-studies
cooperative-games
coalition-formation
climate-policy

Model international climate agreements as a cooperative partition function game, compute Shapley values for responsibility allocation, analyse coalition stability and free-riding incentives, and visualize why the grand coalition is unstable.

May 8, 2026

OPEC as a cartel — oligopoly theory applied to oil markets

case-studies
oligopoly
cartel
opec

Model OPEC as a repeated Cournot oligopoly with heterogeneous producers, compute Nash and cartel equilibria, analyse deviation incentives, and determine the critical discount factor for cartel sustainability.

May 8, 2026

Spectrum auction design — from theory to billions in revenue

case-studies
spectrum-auctions
mechanism-design

Analyse the FCC spectrum auctions as a mechanism design case study, model simultaneous ascending auctions and combinatorial bidding in R, and visualize revenue outcomes across major US spectrum sales.

May 8, 2026

Spectrum Auction Design: A Case Study in Applied Mechanism Design

case-studies
auction-design

Simulate key challenges in spectrum auction design — combinatorial valuations, budget constraints, and market concentration — and compare simultaneous ascending auctions with combinatorial clock auctions.

May 8, 2026

Tragedy of the commons — game-theoretic analysis

case-studies
commons-dilemma
public-goods
institutional-design

Hardin’s tragedy of the commons modelled as an N-player commons dilemma with continuous extraction, comparing Nash equilibrium over-extraction to the social optimum and simulating Ostrom’s institutional design principles.

May 8, 2026
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