Yale Open Courses ECON 159: Game Theory
By William Sheppard
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Description
About the 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.
Course Structure
This Yale College course, taught on campus twice per week for 75 minutes, was recorded for Open Yale Courses in Fall 2007.
https://oyc.yale.edu/economics/econ-159
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Lecture 24
- Asymmetric Information: Auctions and the Winner's Curse
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Jun 08, 2018 |
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Lecture 23
- Asymmetric Information: Silence, Signaling and Suffering Education
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Jun 08, 2018 |
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Lecture 22
- Repeated Games: Cheating, Punishment, and Outsourcing
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Jun 08, 2018 |
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Lecture 21
- Repeated Games: Cooperation vs. the End Game
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Jun 08, 2018 |
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Lecture 20
- Subgame Perfect Equilibrium: Wars of Attrition
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Jun 08, 2018 |
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Lecture 19
- Subgame Perfect Equilibrium: Matchmaking and Strategic Investments
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Jun 08, 2018 |
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Lecture 18
- Imperfect Information: Information Sets and Sub-Game Perfection
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Jun 08, 2018 |
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Lecture 17
- Backward Induction: Ultimatums and Bargaining
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Jun 08, 2018 |
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Lecture 16
- Backward Induction: Reputation and Duels
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Jun 08, 2018 |
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Lecture 15
- Backward Induction: Chess, Strategies, and Credible Threats
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Jun 06, 2018 |
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Lecture 14
- Backward Induction: Commitment, Spies, and First-Mover Advantages
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Jun 06, 2018 |
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Lecture 13
- Sequential Games: Moral Hazard, Incentives, and Hungry Lions
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Jun 06, 2018 |
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Lecture 12
- Evolutionary Stability: Social Convention, Aggression, and Cycles
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Jun 06, 2018 |
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Lecture 11
- Evolutionary Stability: Cooperation, Mutation, and Equilibrium
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Jun 06, 2018 |
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Lecture 10
- Mixed Strategies in Baseball, Dating and Paying Your Taxes
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Jun 04, 2018 |
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Lecture 9
- Mixed Strategies in Theory and Tennis
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Jun 04, 2018 |
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Lecture 8
- Nash Equilibrium: Location, Segregation and Randomization
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Jun 04, 2018 |
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Lecture 7 - Nash Equilibrium: Shopping, Standing and Voting on a Line
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Jun 04, 2018 |
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Lecture 6 - Nash Equilibrium: Dating and Cournot
Overview
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Jun 03, 2018 |
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Lecture 5 - Nash Equilibrium: Bad Fashion and Bank Runs
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Jun 03, 2018 |
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Lecture 4 - Best Responses in Soccer and Business Partnerships
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Jun 03, 2018 |
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Lecture 3 - Iterative Deletion and the Median-Voter Theorem
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Jun 03, 2018 |
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Lecture 2 - Putting Yourselves into Other People's Shoes
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Jun 03, 2018 |
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Introduction: Five First Lessons
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Jun 03, 2018 |