Games, Strategies and Decision Making

This book discusses building a model of a Strategic Situation, construction of a game using the extended and strategies, and the evolution of game theory and biology.

Abstract

PART I: CONSTRUCTING A GAME USING THE EXTENSIVE AND STRATEGIC FORMS 1. Introduction to Strategic Reasoning 2. Building a Model of a Strategic Situation PART II: RATIONAL BEHAVIOR 3. Eliminating the Impossible: Solving a Game when Rationality Is Common Knowledge 4. Stable Play: Nash Equilibria in Discrete Games with Two or Three Players 5. Stable Play: Nash Equilibria in Discrete n-Player Games 6. Stable Play: Nash Equilibria in Continuous Games 7. Keep 'Em Guessing: Randomized Strategies PART III: EXTENSIVE FORM GAMES 8. Taking Turns: Sequential Games with Perfect Information 9. Taking Turns in the Dark: Sequential Games with Imperfect Information PART IV: GAMES OF INCOMPLETE INFORMATION 10. I Know Something You Don't Know: Games with Private Information 11. What You Do Tells Me Who You Are: Signaling Games 12. Lies and the Lying Liars That Tell Them: Cheap Talk Games PART V: REPEATED GAMES 13. Playing Forever: Repeated Interaction with Infinitely Lived Players 14. Cooperation and Reputation: Applications of Repeated Interaction with Infinitely Lived Players 15. Interaction in Infinitely Lived Institutions PART VI: EVOLUTIONARY GAME THEORY 16. Evolutionary Game Theory and Biology: Evolutionarily Stable Strategies 17. Evolutionary Game Theory and Biology: Replicator Dynamics