Contact Information

Name: Shuige Liu

E-mail: shuige.s.liu@gmail.com

Homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/shuigeliu/

Personal Information

Nationality: People’s Republic of China

Residence: Italy, Japan

Education

Sep. 2004 – Jun. 2008: Undergraduate in School of Economics, Hefei University of Technology, China. B.A. (Economics)

Sep. 2009 – Sep. 2011: Master Program in School of Economics, Zhejiang University, China. M.A. (Economics).

  Field: Theoretical Economics

  Master Thesis: Epistemology in Games: Introduction and Application

Dec. 2011 – Mar. 2013: Doctoral Program in Social System and Management, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, Tsukuba University, Japan.

Apr. 2013 – Jul. 2018: Doctoral Program in Graduate School of Economics, Waseda University, Japan. Ph. D. (Economics).

  Field: Theoretical Economics and Game Theory

  Ph.D. Thesis: Individuals with Bounded Cognitive Abilities and the Social Game

Employment History

Apr. 2016 – Sep. 2018: Research Associate, School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University.

Oct. 2018 – Mar. 2022: Assistant Professor, School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University.

Sep. 2019 – Mar. 2022: Adjunct Instructor, Department of Global Innovation Studies, Toyo University.

Apr. 2022 - Aug.2022: Adjunct Instructor, School of Management, Tokyo University of Science.

Sep. 2023 -     : Research Fellow, Department of Decision Sciences, Bocconi Univerisity

Scholarship and Research Fund

Apr. 2014 – Mar. 2016: Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2), JSPS.

Apr. 2017 – Mar. 2019: Grant-in-Aids for Young Scientists (B) of JSPS No.17K13707.

Apr. 2021 – Sep. 2022: Grant-in-Aids for Young Scientists (B) of JSPS No.21K13263.

Societies and Organizations

Japanese Economic Society

Publications

[1] “Elimination of Dominated Strategies and Inessential Players” (with Mamoru Kaneko), Operations Research and Decisions 25 (2015), 35-54.

[2] “Directed Graphical Structure, Nash Equilibrium, and Potential Games”, Operations Research Letters 46 (2018), 273-277.

[3] “Monotonic Core Allocation Paths for Assignment Games” (with Takaaki Abe), Social Choice and Welfare 53 (2019), 557-573.

[4] “Characterizing Permissibility, Proper Rationalizability, and Iterated Admissibility by Incomplete Information”, International Journal of Game Theory 50 (2021): 119-148.

Papers Under Submission

[1] “Compactification of Extensive Forms and Belief in the Opponents’ Future Rationality”, submitted to International Journal of Game Theory.

Working papers

[1] “Influence Structure, Nash Equilibrium, and Approximation of a Game”. https://www.waseda.jp/fpse/gse/assets/uploads/2017/03/32-16-002.pdf

[2] “A Note on Gale, Kuhn, and Tucker's Reductions of Zero-Sum Games”. https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.02326

[3] “Randomness, Predictability, and Complexity in Repeated Situations” (with Zsombor Z. Méder).

[4] “Knowledge and Acceptance of Core Payoffs: An Epistemic Foundation for Cooperative Game Theory”. https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04595

[5] “Ordered Kripke Model, Permissibility, and Convergence of Probabilistic Kripke Model”. https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.08767

[6] “Compactification of Extensive Forms and Belief in the Opponents’ Future Rationality”. https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00355

[7] “Rationalization, Quantal Response Equilibrium, and Robust Outcomes in Large Populations” (with Fabio Maccheroni) https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.16081

[8] “A Game-Theoretic Model of Superpowers Competing for a Sphere of Influence” (with Tomoo Kikuchi) https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.10206

Selected Presentations

Invited Seminar

[1] “Epistemic Structure of Iterated Elimination of Dominated Strategies: An example of applying epistemic logic to game theory”, HASS Colloquium Series, Humanity, Arts and Social Science, Singapore University of Technology and Design, 7th Oct. 2016.

[2] “Knowledge and Unanimous Acceptance of Core Payoffs: An Epistemic Foundation for Cooperative Game Theory”, Theory and Experiment Seminars, Department of Decision Science and Department of Economics, Bocconi University, 7th May 2019.

[3] “Quantal Response Equilibrium and Rationalization: Within the Blackbox” (paper with Fabio Maccheroni), Economics Seminar, Center for Mathematical Economics, Bielefeld University, 24th Oct. 2023.

[4] “Superpowers Competing for a Sphere of Influences: The power of non-superpowers” (paper with Tomoo Kikuchi), Research Seminar, Department of Economics and Statistics, Siena University, 8th Nov. 2023.

Conference Presentations

[1] “Elimination of Dominated Strategies and Inessential Players: An Abstraction Process” (with Mamoru Kaneko), Game Theory, Epistemic Logic, & Related Topics (no referee reading), Tsukuba University, 28th Aug. 2013.

[2] “Elimination of Dominated Strategies and Inessential Players: An Abstraction Process” (with Mamoru Kaneko), International Workshop on Inductive Game Theory (no referee reading), Queensland University, 3rd Dec. 2013.

[3] “Elimination of Dominated Strategies and Inessential Players: An Abstraction Process” (with Mamoru Kaneko) 19th DC Conference, TCED Micro-conference (no referee reading), Yokohama National University, 13th Sep. 2013.

[4] “Elimination of Dominated Strategies and Inessential Players” (with Mamoru Kaneko), Workshop on Knowledge, Rationality and Decision Making (no referee reading), Tsinghua University, 1st Mar. 2014.

[5] “Elimination of Dominated Strategies and Inessential Players”, 2014 Spring Meeting of Japanese Economic Association (referee reading), Doshisha University, 14th Jun. 2014 (Poster)

[6] “Elimination of Dominated Strategies and Inessential Players” (with Mamoru Kaneko), SING10 (referee reading), AGH University of Science and Technology, 9th Jul. 2014.

[7] “Elimination of Dominated Strategies and Inessential Players” (with Mamoru Kaneko), 14th SAET Conference (referee reading), Waseda University, 21st Aug. 2014.

[8] “Elimination of Dominated Strategies and Inessential Players” (with Mamoru Kaneko), 2014 RCGEB Winter Workshop (no referee reading), Shandong University, 7th Dec. 2014.

[9] “Influence Structures, -Approximation, and Nash Equilibria”, LGS 8 & PPCGT 8 (referee reading), Academia Sinica, Taiwan. 19th May, 2015.

[10] “Influence Structures, -Approximation, and Nash Equilibria”, Fukuoka University Game Theory Young Scholar Workshop (no referee reading), Fukuoka University, 17th Feb. 2016.

[11] “Influence Structures, -Approximation, and Nash Equilibria”, TCER Junior Workshop (no referee reading), Waseda University, 5th Mar. 2016.

[12] “Epistemic Structure of Iterated Elimination of Dominated Strategies: An example of applying epistemic logic to game theory”, Graduate Summer Workshop on Game Theory (no referee reading), Seoul National University, 30th Aug. 2016.

[13] “Influence Structures, -Approximation, and Nash Equilibria”, 2016 Autumn Meeting of Japanese Economic Association (referee reading), Waseda University, 10th Sep. 2016.

[14] “Influence Structure, Nash Equilibrium, and Potential Games”, the 13th European Meeting in Game Theory (SING 13) (referee reading), LAMSADE, Paris Daupine University, Paris, France, July 6th, 2017.

[15] “Randomness, Predictability, and Complexity in Repeated Interactions “(with Z.Z. Meder), the 28th Stony Brook International Conference on Game Theory (referee reading), Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA, July 21st, 2017.

[16] “Randomness, Predictability, and Complexity in Repeated Interactions” (with Z.Z. Meder), East Asian Game Theory Conference 2017 (referee reading), National University of Singapore, Singapore, August 2nd, 2017.

[17] “Knowledge and Acceptance of Core Payoffs: An Epistemic Foundation for Cooperative Game Theory”, The 13th Conference on Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory (LOFT 13) (referee reading), Bocconi University, July 18th, 2018.

[18] “Rationalization, Quantal Response Equilibrium, and Robust Action Distribution in Populations”, Workshop 2023 of Central European Program in Economic Theory, Udine University, 23rd June, 2023.

[19] “A Game-Theoretic Model of Superpowers Competing for a Sphere of Influence” (with Tomoo Kikuchi), XII Workshop on Institutions, Individual Behavior and Economic Outcomes (Political Economic Session), Università di Sassari, 4th July, 2023.

[20] “Rationalization, quantal response equilibrium, and robust action distributions in populations.” (with Fabio Maccheroni), XVII GRASS Workshop, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 11th September 2023.

Teaching

Apr. 2016 – Mar. 2019: Exercise classes for Introduction of Economics, School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University.

Apr. 2019 – Mar.2022: Basic seminar, Immediate Seminars (Epistemic game theory, Games and Computation, Games and Mind) (in English), 経済学研究（ゲーム、計算、そして複雑性） (“Economic Studies: Games, Computation, and Complexity”, in Japanese), School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University.

Sep. 2019 – Mar. 2022: Game Theory, Department of Global Innovation Studies, Toyo University.

Apr. 2022 – Aug. 2022: 経済データ分析２(“Economic Data Analysis [with R]” in Japanese), School of Management, Tokyo University of Science.

July 9, 10, 12, 2019: Lectures on epistemic game theory in the sixth Spring Course of EPICENTER, Maastricht University, https://www.epicenter.name/previous-courses/

Award

Liang Shih-Chiu Literature Prize, 2008 (Taiwan, Chung Hua Times and Chiuko Publishing House)

Languages

Mandarin Chinese (native speaker), English (fluent), Japanese (fluent)

Italian (everyday level listening and talking but can handle more complicated reading and writing learning), French (everyday level listening and talking but can handle more complicated reading and writing learning), German (poor), Spanish (very poor)

Programming Languages

Python, R, Julia (poor)