Bezalel Peleg was born in the town of Afula located in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine. According to the 1931 census, Afula contained 874 inhabitants and 236 houses. Peleg grew with town, leaving it for the Hebrew University by the time its population had almost quadrupled. At the University he came to…
Has, after a long illness passed away. Though born in Geneva, he spent the early part of his life in France. The 1940 invasion of France propelled the Balinski family to the United States. He returned to France 40 years later where he settled. Balinski received his PhD under the supervision of Albert Tucker, part…
Martin Shubik, he of the Shapley-Shubik assignment game, and the Shapley-Shubik power index passed away on Wednesday August 24, 2018. As he passed into the `seventh age' of man he suffered a progressive muscle disorder characterized by muscle inflammation, weakness, and atrophy (wasting). Born in England, he was the middle of three remarkable children. His…
The Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society elected Yair Tauman as the President and Igal Milchtaich as the Executive Officer for the period 2018–2020.
General Information From 2017 onwards GTS membership has a new, simplified fee structure. Membership is for 4 calendar years at a time, at a cost of 80 Euros (regular rate) or 40 Euros (reduced rate, for students or members from low-income countries) for 4 years. The reduced rate is available to those not living in a European Union…
David M. Kreps, Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson, familiar names to members of the Society, were awarded the US National Academy of Sciences John J. Carty award for the advancement of science. The citation reads, in part: Kreps and Wilson provided a framework, known as sequential equilibrium, for modeling dynamic effects in economics. All three…
General Information From 2017 onwards GTS membership has a new, simplified fee structure. Membership is for 4 calendar years at a time, at a cost of 80 Euros (regular rate) or 40 Euros (reduced rate, for students or members from low-income countries) for 4 years. The reduced rate is available to those not living in a European Union…
The inaugural issue of the Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design has recently been published. The journal – based at the University of York and edited by a team of 52 leading experts from all over the world – is an open-access, independent, peer-reviewed, non-profit, English-language journal with the purpose of disseminating and sharing the…
(mailed to GTS members by Jean-Jacques Herings, Secretary-Treasurer of the Game Theory Society, on 21 September 2017) Dear Members of the Game Theory Society, According to the bylaws of our Society, one of the duties of the Council is to vote for the Fellows of the Society. The Fellows of the Society are a group…