Introduction to Game Theory
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788740302806
Table of contents: title: Content; title: 1. Foreword; title: 2. Introduction; title: 2.1. Aim and task of game theory; title: 2.2. Applications of game theory; title: 2.3. An example: the prisoner’s dilemma; title: 2.4. Game theory terms; title: 3. Simultaneous games; title: 3.1. Foundations; title: 3.2. Strategies; title: 3.3. Equilibriums in pure strategies; title: 3.4. Equilibriums in mixed strategies; title: 3.5. Special forms of games; title: 3.6. Simultaneous games in economics; title: 3.7. -person games; title: 4. Sequential games; title: 4.1. Foundations; title: 4.2. Terms; title: 4.3. Subgames and subgame perfect equilibriums; title: 4.4. Sequential games played simultaneously and Nash equilibriums; title: 4.5. The First Mover’s Advantage (FMA); title: 4.6. An example: the Cuba crisis; title: 5. Negotiations (cooperative games); title: 5.1. Foundations; title: 5.2. Coalitions; title: 5.3. The characteristic function; title: 5.4. The cake game; title: 5.5. Negotiations between two players; title: 5.6. Distinguishing cooperative and non-cooperative games; title: 6. Decisions under uncertainty; title: 6.1. Modelling uncertainty; title: 6.2. The utility function u(x); title: 6.3. The expected utility; title: 7. Anomalies in game theory; title: 7.1. Foundations; title: 7.2. Games under uncertainty: the Ellsberg paradox; title: 7.3. Games without uncertainty; title: 8. References