Essays in game theory and political economy

We study models about game theory and political economy. The first chapter titled "Strategic Information Transmission through the Media" studies strategic communication through the media and provides several simple models that demonstrate how a sender or senders can manipulate information through the news media, such as newspaper or television stations, in order to influence the decision making process of receivers. The second chapter titled "Spatial Pillage Game" studies a coalitional game as a literature on allocation by force. Spatial pillage game extends one of the pillage games which models Hobbesian anarchy by introducing a space concept into a pillage game. The third chapter studies a prisoner's dilemma game in the random-matching setting without information flow across matches and examines the Possibility of cooperation.