Economic Applications of Game Theory

Ian Ball - MIT

1. Introduction to Individual Decision Making

2. Representation of Games

3. Dominance

4. Rationalisability 

5. Nash Equilibrium

6. Imperfect Competition

7. Zero-Sum Games

8. Backward Induction

9. Negotiation

10. Sub-Game Perfect Nash Equilibrium

11. One-Shot Deviation Principle and Bargaining

12. Finitely Repeated Games

13. Infinitely Repeated Games

14. Folk Theorem

15. Implicit Cartels

16. Bayesian Games

17. Bayesian Nash Equilibrium: Applications

18. Auctions

19. Revenue Equivalence

20. Ad Auctions

21. Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium

22. Signalling

23. Bargaining with Incomplete Information

24. Cheap Talk

25. Common Knowledge