Games and Decision Making
Table of Contents
- Choices and Opportunities
- Functions
- The optimization problem
- First order conditions
- Optimizing using the Lagrange method
- Uncertainty and Chance
- Decision Making Under Uncertainty
- Decisions and Games
- Two-person matrix games
- Strategic form games
- Applications
- Solving matrix games with mixed strategies
- Sequential Decisions
- Graphs and trees
- Single-person decisions
- Uncertainty and single-person decisions
- Sequential games
- The structure of sequential games
- Sequential games with perfect information
- Sequential games with imperfect information
- Sequential rationality
- The market for lemons
- Beliefs and Strategies
- Consistency of beliefs
- Expected payoff
- Sequential equilibrium
- Applications -- Signaling games
- Auctions
- Auctions with complete information
- Individual private value auctions
- English auctions
- Common-value auctions
- Bargaining
- The Nash solution
- Monotonicity in bargaining
- The core of a bargaining game
- Allocation rules: The Shapley value
- Sequential bargaining
- Applications of bargaining
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