SInfoNiA

SInfoNiA, Olivier Gossner’s project awarded an ERC Advanced Grant in 2024 and funded by UKRI.

SInfoNiA — Strategic Information: New Directions and Applications was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant in 2024 and is funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

SInfoNiA studies how information coordinates economic activity and shapes strategic interaction. It develops a theory of strategic types that describes information through its relevance to a given game, with applications to financial stability, robust economic predictions and social norms.

The research is organised into seven work packages:

• WP1 — Strategic types: develop a framework applicable to a broad range of games.
• WP2 — Measuring and valuing information: develop new ways to quantify information and assess its economic value.
• WP3 — Connections with global games: bring strategic types and global-games information structures into a unified framework.
• WP4 — Algorithms: develop computational methods that make the theory widely usable.
• WP5 — Financial stability: extend global-games analysis to new models of financial stability.
• WP6 — Robustness: examine how robust economic outcomes are, including in trade and financial networks.
• WP7 — Information and incentive design: jointly design information and incentives to achieve desirable outcomes, including interventions to change social norms and address gender inequality.

ERC project description (CORDIS) · Project website at CREST

Team

• Olivier Gossner — Principal investigator, CNRS–CREST and LSE.
• Satvik Sharma — PhD student, LSE.
• Davide Bordoli — Postdoctoral researcher, CREST.

Papers

Publications of the SInfoNiA project.

Workshops

SInfoNiA funds workshops within the recurring Paris Game Theory Festival, which brings together researchers in game theory, information and language at the Institut Henri Poincaré and Université Paris Panthéon-Assas.

2027 — forthcoming

• 3rd Paris Workshop on Game Theory and Information, 7–9 June, Institut Henri Poincaré.
• 5th Paris Workshop on Game Theory and Language, 10–11 June, Université Paris Panthéon-Assas.

2026

• 2nd Paris Workshop on Game Theory and Information, 8–10 June, Institut Henri Poincaré.
• 4th Paris Workshop on Game Theory and Language, 11–12 June, Université Paris Panthéon-Assas. This edition marked the fiftieth anniversary of “Agreeing to Disagree”, with Robert Aumann.

2025

• Paris Workshop on Game Theory and Information, 2–4 June, Institut Henri Poincaré.
• 3rd Paris Workshop on Game Theory and Language, 5–7 June, Université Paris Panthéon-Assas.