Game Theory

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Lessons

Lecture 1. Introduction: five first lessons
Lecture 2. Putting yourselves into other people's shoes
Lecture 3. Iterative deletion and the median-voter theorem
Lecture 4. Best responses in soccer and business partnerships
Lecture 5. Nash equilibrium: bad fashion and bank runs
Lecture 6. Nash equilibrium: dating and Cournot
Lecture 7. Nash equilibrium: shopping, standing and voting on a line
Lecture 8. Nash equilibrium: location, segregation and randomization
Lecture 9. Mixed strategies in theory and tennis
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Game Theory

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Assignment: Questions/Thoughts?	Ashish Gupta (13)
Midterm Exam: Questions/Thoughts?	Ashish Gupta (13)
Final Exam : Questions/Thoughts?	Ashish Gupta (13)

About This Course

This course is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking. Ideas such as dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, evolutionary stability, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, adverse selection, and signaling are discussed and applied to games played in class and to examples drawn from economics, politics, the movies, and elsewhere.

Instructor: Ben Polak
Source: Yale OpenCourseWare
License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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