Game
Theory

Ben Polak - Yale

1. Introduction: First Five Lessons

2. Putting Yourselves into Other People's Shoes

3. Iterative Deletion & The Median-Voter Theorem

4. Best Responses in Soccer & Business Partnerships

5. Nash Equilibrium: Bad Fashion & Bank Runs

6. Nash Equilibrium: Dating & Cournot

7. Nash Equilibrium: Shopping, Standing & Voting on a Line

8. Nash Equilibrium: Location, Segregation and Randomisation

9. Mixed Strategy in Theory & Tennis

10. Mixed Strategies in Baseball, Dating, and Paying your Taxes

11. Evolutionary Stability: Cooperation, Mutation, and Equilibrium

12. Evolutionary Stability: Social Convention, Aggression, and Cycles

13. Sequential Games: Moral Hazard, Incentives, and Hungry Lions

14. Backward Induction: Commitment, Spies, and First Mover Advantages

15. Backward Induction: Chess, Strategies, and Credible Threats

16. Backward Induction: Reputation & Duels

17. Backward Induction: Ultimatums & Bargaining

18. Imperfect Information: Information Sets & Sub-Game Perfection

19. Subgame Perfect Equilibrium: Matchmaking & Strategic Investments

20. Subgame Perfect Equilibrium: War of Attrition

21. Repeated Games: Cooperation vs The End Game

22. Repeated Games: Cheating, Punishment, and Outsourcing

23. Asymmetric Information: Silence, Signalling & Suffering Education

24. Asymmetric Information: Auctions & The Winner's Curse