Strategies and games : theory and practice /
Prajit K. Dutta.
- xxx, 476 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- A Reader's Guide -- Introduction -- A First Look at the Applications -- A First Look at the Theory -- Strategic Form Games: Theory and Practice -- Strategic Form Games and Dominant Strategies -- Dominance Solvability -- Nash Equilibrium -- An Application: Cournot Duopoly -- An Application: The Commons Problem -- Mixed Strategies -- Two Applications: Natural Monopoly and Bankruptcy Law -- Zero-Sum Games -- Extensive Form Games: Theory and Applications -- Extensive Form Games and Backward Induction -- An Application: Research and Development -- Subgame Perfect Equilibrium -- Finitely Repeated Games -- Infinitely Repeated Games -- An Application: Competition and Collusion in the NASDAQ Stock Market -- An Application: OPEC -- Dynamic Games with an Application to the Commons Problem -- Asymmetric Information Games: Theory and Applications -- Moral Hazard and Incentives Theory -- Games with Incomplete Information -- An Application: Incomplete Information in a Cournot Duopoly -- Mechanism Design, the Revelation Principle, and Sales to an Unknown Buyer -- An Application: Auctions -- Signaling Games and the Lemons Problem -- Foundations -- Calculus and Optimization -- Probability and Expectation -- Utility and Expected Utility -- Existence of Nash Equilibria -- Index. Pt. 1. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Pt. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Pt. 3. Ch. 11. Ch. 12. Ch. 13. Ch. 14. Ch. 15. Ch. 16. Ch. 17. Ch. 18. Pt. 4. Ch. 19. Ch. 20. Ch. 21. Ch. 22. Ch. 23. Ch. 24. Pt. 5. Ch. 25. Ch. 26. Ch. 27. Ch. 28.