TY  - BOOK
AU  - Watson,Joel
TI  - Strategy: an introduction to game theory 
SN  - 0393976483
AV  - HB144. W37 2002
U1  - 330.019 
PY  - 2002///]
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton
KW  - Game theory
KW  - Economics
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Strategic planning
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface --; 1; Introduction --; Noncooperative Game Theory --; Contract and Cooperative Game Theory --; The Meaning of "Game" --; Part I; Representing Games --; 2; The Extensive Form --; Other Examples and Conventions --; Exercises --; 3; Strategies --; Exercises --; 4; The Normal Form --; Classic Normal-Form Games --; Interpretation of the Normal Form --; Exercises --; 5; Beliefs, Mixed Strategies, and Expected Utility --; Exercises --; Part II; Analyzing Behavior in Static Settings --; 6; Dominance and Best Response --; Dominance --; The First Strategic Tension and the Prisoners' Dilemma --; The Concept of Efficiency --; Best Response --; Dominance and Best Response Compared --; Exercises --; 7; Rationalizability and Iterated Dominance --; The Second Strategic Tension --; Exercises --; 8; Location and Partnership --; A Location Game --; A Partnership Game: Strategic Complementarities --; Exercises --; 9; Congruous Strategies and Nash Equilibrium --; Congruous Sets --; Nash Equilibrium --; Equilibrium of the Partnership Game --; Coordination and Social Welfare --; The Third Strategic Tension --; Aside: Behavioral Game Theory --; Exercises --; 10; Oligopoly, Tariffs, and Crime and Punishment --; Cournot Duopoly Model --; Bertrand Duopoly Model --; Tariff Setting by Two Countries --; A Model of Crime and Police --; Exercises --; 11; Mixed-Strategy Nash Equilibrium --; Exercises --; 12; Strictly Competitive Games and Security Strategies --; Exercises --; 13; Contract, Law, and Enforcement in Static Settings --; Complete Contracting in Discretionary Environments --; Contracting with Court-Imposed Breach Remedies --; Exercises --; Part III; Analyzing Behavior in Dynamic Settings --; 14; Details of the Extensive Form --; Exercises --; 15; Backward Induction and Subgame Perfection --; Sequential Rationality and Backward Induction --; Subgame Perfection --; Exercises --; 16; Topics in Industrial Organization --; Advertising and Competition --; A Model of Limit Capacity --; Dynamic Monopoly --; Price Guarantees as a Commitment to High Prices --; Exercises --; 17; Parlor Games --; Exercises --; 18; Bargaining Problems --; Bargaining: Value Creation and Division --; An Abstract Representation of Bargaining Problems --; An Example --; The Standard Bargaining Solution --; Exercises --; 19; Analysis of Simple Bargaining Games --; Ultimatum Games: Power to the Proposer --; Two-Period, Alternating-Offer Games: Power to the Patient --; Infinite-Period, Alternating-Offer Game --; Exercises --; 20; Games with Joint Decisions; Negotiation Equilibrium --; Joint Decisions --; Negotiation Equilibrium --; Example: Contracting for High-Powered Incentives --; Exercises --; 21; Investment, Hold Up, and Ownership --; Hold Up Example --; Asset Ownership --; Exercises --; 22; Repeated Games and Reputation --; A Two-Period Repeated Game --; An Infinitely Repeated Game --; The Equilibrium Payoff Set with Low Discounting --; Exercises --; 23; Collusion, Trade Agreements, and Goodwill --; Dynamic Oligopoly and Collusion --; Enforcing International Trade Agreements --; Goodwill and Trading a Reputation --; Exercises --; Part IV; Information --; 24; Random Events and Incomplete Information --; Exercises --; 25; Risk and Incentives in Contracting --; Risk Aversion --; A Principal-Agent Game --; Exercises --; 26; Bayesian Nash Equilibrium and Rationalizability --; Exercises --; 27; Trade with Incomplete Information --; Markets and Lemons --; Auctions --; Exercises --; 28; Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium --; Conditional Beliefs about Types --; Sequential Rationality --; Consistency of Beliefs --; Equilibrium Definition --; Exercises --; 29; Job-Market Signaling and Reputation --; Jobs and School --; Reputation and Incomplete Information --; Exercises --; Appendices --; A; Review of Mathematics --; Sets --; Functions and Calculus --; Probability --; B; The Mathematics of Rationalizability --; Dominance, Best Response, and Correlated Conjectures --; Rationalizability Construction --; Exercises --; Index
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