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Readings in games and information / edited by Eric Rasmusen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell readings for contemporary economicsPublisher: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Publishers, 2001Description: xviii, 427 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0631215565
  • 9780631215561
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 519.3
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Pt. 1. The Rules of the Game -- 1. The Prisoner's Dilemma -- 2. A Two-Person Dilemma -- 3. Equilibrium Points in N-Person Games -- 4. Non-Cooperative Games -- 5. To Ensure High Prices, Some Haulers Have Been Known to Break the Rules -- 6. Cash Flow: 'Pay to Play' is Banned, But Muni-Bound Firms Keep the Game Going -- 7. School of Genius -- 8. Cartoon: Ratbert and Consultant -- Pt. 2. Information -- 9. The Donation Booth -- 10. The Horatii and the Curiatii -- 11. TREES - A Decision-Maker's Lament -- 12. Knowing and Showing Economics and Law -- 13. Cartoon: "All Those in Favor, Say 'Aye'" -- Pt. 3. Mixed and Continuous Strategies -- 14. Colonel Blotto: A Problem of Military Strategy -- 15. Dutch Accountants Take on a Formidable Task: Ferreting Out "Cheaters" in the Ranks of OPEC -- 16. Shipping Price-Fixing Pacts Hurt Consumers, Critics Say -- 17. The Conference Handbook -- 18. Cartoon: "Very Guilty" -- Pt. 4. Dynamic Games with Symmetric Information -- 19. On An Application of Set Theory to the Theory of the Game of Chess -- 20. The Strategy of Conflict -- 21. Does the Fittest Necessarily Survive? -- 22. Shooting the Bird's Eye -- 23. Cartoon: "That's It? That's Peer Review?" -- Pt. 5. Reputation and Repeated Games with Symmetric Information -- 24. The Evolution of Cooperation -- 25. This Tax Amnesty Will Work Only Once -- 26. Fare Warning: How Airlines Trade Price Plans -- 27. Starting Research Early -- 28. Cartoon: Einstein Discovers that Time is Actually Money -- Pt. 6. Dynamic Games with Incomplete Information -- 29. Rational Cooperation in the Finitely Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma -- 30. Cheap Talk, Coordination, and Entry -- 31. Wise Guy: Life in a Mafia Family -- 32. Cartoon: "Say, I Think I See Where We Went Off." -- Pt. 7. Moral Hazard: Hidden Actions -- 33. Monopoly Slack and Competitive Rigor: A Simple Model -- 34. An Optimal Conviction Policy for Offenses that May Have Been Committed by Accident -- 35. Bonded Worker in No Guarantee of a Perfect Job -- 36. Cartoon: "Look, Ted! We Get Paid the Same as You but All We're Doing is Standing Around and Flicking our Fingers" -- Pt. 8. Further Topics in Moral Hazard -- 37. Wealth of Nations -- 38. Examples of Plea Bargains -- 39. Unions Say Auto Firms Use Interplant Rivalry to Raise Work Quotas -- 40. Cartoon: "Dilbert, I Want You to Manage Wally's Project While He's on Vacation in Aruba" -- Pt. 9. Adverse Selection -- 41. The Market for "Lemons": Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism -- 42. The Only Game in Town -- 43. Are Advertisers Ready to Pay Their Viewers? -- 44. The Creation of New Mathematics: An Application of the Lakatos Heuristic -- 45. Cartoon: Frank's Neurosurgery -- Pt. 10. Mechanism Design in Adverse Selection and in Moral Hazard with Hidden Information -- 46. Tie Salesmen's Bonuses to Their Forecasts -- 47. Car-Buying Services Can Save Money, Especially for Those who Hate Haggling -- 48. How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time -- 49. Cartoon: "Of Course That's Only an Estimate." -- Pt. 11. Signalling -- 50. High and Declining Prices Signal Product Quality -- 51. The Argument of an Appeal -- 52. Cartoon: "Yes, but the Trouble is he Always Wears that Mysterious Smile" -- Pt. 12. Bargaining -- 53. The Bargaining Problem -- 54. Perfect Equilibrium in a Bargaining Model -- 55. UPS Faces More Than $1 Billion of Year in New Labor Expenses: Pact Calls for Substantial Pay Increases, Full-Time Jobs and a Union Pension Plan -- 56. Cartoon: "Whatever Happened to Elegant Solutions?" -- Pt. 13. Auctions -- 57. The Dollar Auction Game: A Paradox in Noncooperative Behavior and Escalation -- 58. Analyzing the Airwaves Auction -- 59. At Many Auctions, Illegal Bidding Thrives as a Longtime Practice Among Dealers -- 60. Cartoon: "The Next Item up for Bid is the Presidency of the United States." -- Pt. 14. Pricing -- 61. Stability in Competition -- 62. The Mathematical Economics of Professor Amoroso -- 63. Existence and Computation of Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibrium for 3-Firms Location Problem -- 64. Busting a Trust: Electrical Contractors Reel Under Charges That They Rigged Bids -- 65. Cartoon: "Isn't it Great that We Don't Get Any More Pesky Calls during Dinner Asking us to Switch Long-Distance Companies?" -- Pt. 15. Entry -- 66. The Fat-Cat Effect, the Puppy-Dog Poly, and the Lean and Hungry Look -- 67. Drugs: Novel Heart-Drug Deal Protects Sales, Spurs Suit -- 68. Aphorisms on Writing, Speaking, and Listening -- 69. Cartoon: Henry and the Candy Shop -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Pt. 1. The Rules of the Game -- 1. The Prisoner's Dilemma -- 2. A Two-Person Dilemma -- 3. Equilibrium Points in N-Person Games -- 4. Non-Cooperative Games -- 5. To Ensure High Prices, Some Haulers Have Been Known to Break the Rules -- 6. Cash Flow: 'Pay to Play' is Banned, But Muni-Bound Firms Keep the Game Going -- 7. School of Genius -- 8. Cartoon: Ratbert and Consultant -- Pt. 2. Information -- 9. The Donation Booth -- 10. The Horatii and the Curiatii -- 11. TREES - A Decision-Maker's Lament -- 12. Knowing and Showing Economics and Law -- 13. Cartoon: "All Those in Favor, Say 'Aye'" -- Pt. 3. Mixed and Continuous Strategies -- 14. Colonel Blotto: A Problem of Military Strategy -- 15. Dutch Accountants Take on a Formidable Task: Ferreting Out "Cheaters" in the Ranks of OPEC -- 16. Shipping Price-Fixing Pacts Hurt Consumers, Critics Say -- 17. The Conference Handbook -- 18. Cartoon: "Very Guilty" -- Pt. 4. Dynamic Games with Symmetric Information -- 19. On An Application of Set Theory to the Theory of the Game of Chess -- 20. The Strategy of Conflict -- 21. Does the Fittest Necessarily Survive? -- 22. Shooting the Bird's Eye -- 23. Cartoon: "That's It? That's Peer Review?" -- Pt. 5. Reputation and Repeated Games with Symmetric Information -- 24. The Evolution of Cooperation -- 25. This Tax Amnesty Will Work Only Once -- 26. Fare Warning: How Airlines Trade Price Plans -- 27. Starting Research Early -- 28. Cartoon: Einstein Discovers that Time is Actually Money -- Pt. 6. Dynamic Games with Incomplete Information -- 29. Rational Cooperation in the Finitely Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma -- 30. Cheap Talk, Coordination, and Entry -- 31. Wise Guy: Life in a Mafia Family -- 32. Cartoon: "Say, I Think I See Where We Went Off." -- Pt. 7. Moral Hazard: Hidden Actions -- 33. Monopoly Slack and Competitive Rigor: A Simple Model -- 34. An Optimal Conviction Policy for Offenses that May Have Been Committed by Accident -- 35. Bonded Worker in No Guarantee of a Perfect Job -- 36. Cartoon: "Look, Ted! We Get Paid the Same as You but All We're Doing is Standing Around and Flicking our Fingers" -- Pt. 8. Further Topics in Moral Hazard -- 37. Wealth of Nations -- 38. Examples of Plea Bargains -- 39. Unions Say Auto Firms Use Interplant Rivalry to Raise Work Quotas -- 40. Cartoon: "Dilbert, I Want You to Manage Wally's Project While He's on Vacation in Aruba" -- Pt. 9. Adverse Selection -- 41. The Market for "Lemons": Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism -- 42. The Only Game in Town -- 43. Are Advertisers Ready to Pay Their Viewers? -- 44. The Creation of New Mathematics: An Application of the Lakatos Heuristic -- 45. Cartoon: Frank's Neurosurgery -- Pt. 10. Mechanism Design in Adverse Selection and in Moral Hazard with Hidden Information -- 46. Tie Salesmen's Bonuses to Their Forecasts -- 47. Car-Buying Services Can Save Money, Especially for Those who Hate Haggling -- 48. How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time -- 49. Cartoon: "Of Course That's Only an Estimate." -- Pt. 11. Signalling -- 50. High and Declining Prices Signal Product Quality -- 51. The Argument of an Appeal -- 52. Cartoon: "Yes, but the Trouble is he Always Wears that Mysterious Smile" -- Pt. 12. Bargaining -- 53. The Bargaining Problem -- 54. Perfect Equilibrium in a Bargaining Model -- 55. UPS Faces More Than $1 Billion of Year in New Labor Expenses: Pact Calls for Substantial Pay Increases, Full-Time Jobs and a Union Pension Plan -- 56. Cartoon: "Whatever Happened to Elegant Solutions?" -- Pt. 13. Auctions -- 57. The Dollar Auction Game: A Paradox in Noncooperative Behavior and Escalation -- 58. Analyzing the Airwaves Auction -- 59. At Many Auctions, Illegal Bidding Thrives as a Longtime Practice Among Dealers -- 60. Cartoon: "The Next Item up for Bid is the Presidency of the United States." -- Pt. 14. Pricing -- 61. Stability in Competition -- 62. The Mathematical Economics of Professor Amoroso -- 63. Existence and Computation of Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibrium for 3-Firms Location Problem -- 64. Busting a Trust: Electrical Contractors Reel Under Charges That They Rigged Bids -- 65. Cartoon: "Isn't it Great that We Don't Get Any More Pesky Calls during Dinner Asking us to Switch Long-Distance Companies?" -- Pt. 15. Entry -- 66. The Fat-Cat Effect, the Puppy-Dog Poly, and the Lean and Hungry Look -- 67. Drugs: Novel Heart-Drug Deal Protects Sales, Spurs Suit -- 68. Aphorisms on Writing, Speaking, and Listening -- 69. Cartoon: Henry and the Candy Shop -- Index.

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