Game Theory
Game Theory
Ben Polak - Yale University
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, Aggresion, 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: Reputition & 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