Strategies and games : theory and practice /
Game theory has become increasingly popular among undergraduate as well as business school students. This text is the first to provide both a complete theoretical treatment of the subject and a variety of real-world applications, primarily in economics, but also in business, political science, and t...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
The MIT Press,
1999
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Introduction
- 1. First Look at the Applications
- 2. First Look at the Theory
- Pt. 2. Strategic Form Games: Theory and Practice: 3. Strategic Form Games and Dominant Strategies
- 4. Dominance Solvability
- 5. Nash Equilibrium
- 6. Application: Cournot Duopoly
- 7. Application: The Commons Problem
- 8. Mixed Strategies
- 9.Two Applications: Natural Monopoly and Bankruptcy Law
- 10. Zero-Sum Games
- Pt. 3. Extensive Form Games: Theory and Applications: 11. Extensive Form Games and Backward Induction
- 12. Application: Research and Development
- 13. Subgame Perfect Equilibrium
- 14. Finitely Repeated Games
- 15. Infinitely Repeated Games
- 16. Application: Competition and Collusion in the NASDAQ Stock Market
- 17. Application: OPEC
- 18. Dynamic Games with an Application to the Commons Problem
- Pt. 4. Asymmetric Information Games: Theory and Applications. 19. Moral Hazard and Incentives Theory
- 20. Games with Incomplete Information
- 21. Application: Incomplete Information in a Cournot Duopoly
- 22. Mechanism Design, the Revelation Principle, and Sales to an Unknown Buyer
- 23. Application: Auctions
- 24. Signaling Games and the Lemons Problem
- Pt. 5. Foundations: 25. Calculus and Optimization
- 26. Probability and Expectation
- 27. Utility and Expected Utility
- 28. Existence of Nash Equilibria.