Introduction to Game Theory

English

teaching
game theory
Author

P. Crosetto

Published

January 1, 2011

Rome

The course

A short course on simple topics in Game Theory – strategies, equilibria, static and dynamic games, imperfect information, bargaining.

I was TA for Games and Strategy with Prof. Marco Scarsini in LUISS in 2010. The course was an introduction to game theory. The slides cover static and dynamic games with perfect information. The main textbook was Osborne, Rubinstein, ‘An Introduction to Game Theory’. Exercises and solutions owe much to the work of the Authors as well as to the help of Prof. Scarsini. Typos and small mistakes can be present here and there, and they are entirely mine.

All the lectures are made up of some slides exposing some theory and used as a support for solving exercises. Solutions are not complete; sometimes only the support graphics are present.

Lecture 1 – Prisoner Dilemma, Nash Equilibrium, Oligopoly I – slides

Lecture 2 – Mixed Strategies – slides

Lecture 3 – Extensive Games, Stackelberg Oligopoly, Ultimatum Game – slides

Lecture 4 – Repeated games – slides

Lecture 5 – Bargaining I: Rubinstein, Nash – slides

Lecture 6 – Bargaining II: Nash, Allais paradox, Kalai-Smorodinsky - slides

Lecture 7 – Core – slides

Images and plots

As part of the course, I also produced several hi-res images and plots related to Micro and reproducing MGW’s images – or more generally graphs needed to solve MWG’s exercises.

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