Game Theory

by Durlauf, Steven N.; Blume, Lawrence E.

• ISBN13: 9780230238909
• ISBN10: 0230238904
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Game theory continues to draw interest across the social sciences, not least because of its broad applications. This volume contains over 35 articles integral to the understanding of the field, including entries on the Nash program, the Shapley value, learning and evolution in games, and epistemic game theory. Book jacket.

Author Biography

STEVEN N. DURLAUF is the Kenneth J. Arrow Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA. He has served as Co-Director of the Economics Program of the Santa Fe Institute and is currently a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. A Fellow of the Econometric Society, Durlauf's research covers a range of topics in macroeconomics, econometrics, and income inequality. He received a BA in Economics from Harvard in 1980 and his PhD in Economics from Yale in 1986.

LAWRENCE E BLUME is Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics at Cornell University, USA. He is a member of the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, where he has served as Co-Director of the Economics Program and on the Institute's steering committee. He teaches and conducts research in general equilibrium theory and game theory, and also has research projects on natural resource management and network design. A Fellow of the Econometric Society, he received an AB in Economics from Washington University and a PhD in Economics from Berkeley.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. vii
General Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. x
bargaining	p. 1
behavioural economics and game theory	p. 20
behavioural game theory	p. 29
cheap talk	p. 38
computer science and game theory	p. 48
cooperation	p. 66
deterministic evolutionary dynamics	p. 78
epistemic game theory: an overview	p. 87
epistemic game theory: beliefs and types	p. 89
epistemic game theory: complete information	p. 97
epistemic game theory: incomplete information	p. 114
game theory and biology	p. 119
games in coalitional form	p. 127
global games	p. 144
graphical games	p. 153
incentive compatibility	p. 158
large games (structural robustness)	p. 169
learning and evolution in games: adaptive heuristics	p. 178
learning and evolution in games: an overview	p. 184
learning and evolution in games: belief learning	p. 191
learning and evolution in games: ESS	p. 199
mechanism design	p. 207
mechanism design (new developments)	p. 223
mixed strategy equilibrium	p. 235
Nash equilibrium, refinements of	p. 240
Nash programme	p. 256
non-cooperative games (equilibrium existence)	p. 263
psychological games	p. 272
purification	p. 279
repeated games	p. 286
reputation	p. 300
revelation principle	p. 312
Shapley value
stochastic adaptive dynamics
strategic and extensive form games	p. 333
strategy-proof allocation mechanisms	p. 355
supermodularity and supermodular games	p. 361
Index	p. 372
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