PhD students of Bernhard von Stengel and their theses
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Arndt von Schemde

Date of award: December 2004.

Published as:

A. von Schemde (2005), Index and Stability in Bimatrix Games: A Geometric-Combinatorial Approach, Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Vol. 560, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Related publications:

• A. von Schemde and B. von Stengel (2008), Strategic characterization of the index of an equilibrium. In: Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT) 2008, eds. B. Monien and U.-P. Schroeder, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4997, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 242-254.

Rahul Savani

Finding Nash Equilibria of Bimatrix Games, PhD Thesis, London School of Economics, 2006.

Date of award: June 2006.

Related publications:

• R. Savani and B. von Stengel (2004), Exponentially many steps for finding a Nash equilibrium in a bimatrix game. In: Proc. 45th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2004), 258-267.
• R. Savani and B. von Stengel (2006), Hard-to-Solve Bimatrix Games. Econometrica 74, 397-429.

Anne Balthasar

Geometry and Equilibria in Bimatrix Games, PhD Thesis, London School of Economics, 2009.

Date of award: December 2009.

Related publications:

• A. Balthasar (2010), Equilibrium tracing in strategic-form games. Economic Theory 42, 39-54. doi:10.1007/s00199-009-0442-4

Wan Huang

Equilibrium Computation for Extensive Games, PhD Thesis, London School of Economics, 2011.

Date of award: January 2011.

Related publications:

• W. Huang and B. von Stengel (2008), Computing an extensive-form correlated equilibrium in polynomial time. In: Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE 2008), eds. C. Papadimitriou and S. Zhang, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5385, Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp. 506-513.

Julian Merschen

Nash Equilibria, Gale Strings, and Perfect Matchings, PhD Thesis, London School of Economics, 2012.

Date of award: April 2012.

Related publications:

• M. M. Casetti, J. Merschen, and B. von Stengel (2010), Finding Gale strings. Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics 36, 1065-1072.

Chlump Chatkupt

Least-Squares Regret and Partially Strategic Players, PhD Thesis, London School of Economics, 2015.

Date of award: November 2015.

Ahmad Abu-Khazneh

Matchings and Covers of Multipartite Hypergraphs, PhD Thesis, London School of Economics, 2016.

Date of award: November 2016.

Related publications:

• A.Abu-Khazneh, J. Barát, A. Pokrovskiy, and T. Szabó (2016), A family of extremal hypergraphs for Ryser's conjecture. Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, 161, 164-177. arxiv.org/abs/1605.06361

Sahar Jahani

Advanced Game Theory Applications: Equilibrium Enumeration for 2x2x2 Games and Empirical Game-Theoretic Analysis of a Pricing Game, PhD Thesis, London School of Economics, 2025.

Date of award: September 2025.

Related publications:

• S. Jahani and B. von Stengel (2022), Automated Equilibrium Analysis of 2x2x2 Games. In: Kanellopoulos, P., Kyropoulou, M., Voudouris, A. (eds) Algorithmic Game Theory. SAGT 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 13584, pages 223-237. Springer, Cham.

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