The Correlation between Game Theory and International Trade

• Main Authors: Simona-Valeria TOMA, Ioana-Veronica ALEXA
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dunarea de Jos University of Galati 2012-08-01
• Series: Annals of Dunarea de Jos University. Fascicle I : Economics and Applied Informatics
• Subjects: International trade; Game theory; Country specialization
• Online Access: http://www.eia.feaa.ugal.ro/sites/default/files/Alexa_Toma.pdf

The Correlation between Game Theory and International TradeAbstract:Game theory, in its most basic form, considers two or more players and analyses the different strategies that they can use and the effect that these strategies will have on each player. International trade allows countries to use better their resources (labor, technology or capital). Since countries have different capital or natural resources, some of them will produce a good more efficiently than others and therefore could sell it cheaper than other countries. By using game theory in international trade we could determine if the Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model is correct and what would be the best specialization for each country. The aim of this paper is to test if game theory could be successfully used in a thorough analysis of international trade specialization.