Yale Open Courses ECON 159: Game Theory
About the CourseThis course is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking. Ideas such as dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, evolutionary stability, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, adverse selection, and signaling are discussed and applied to games played in class and to examples drawn from economics, politics, the movies, and elsewhere.
Course Structure
This Yale College course, taught on campus twice per week for 75 minutes, was recorded for Open Yale Courses in Fall 2007.
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Lecture 23 - Asymmetric Information: Silence, Signaling and Suffering Education
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Lecture 19 - Subgame Perfect Equilibrium: Matchmaking and Strategic Investments
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Lecture 18 - Imperfect Information: Information Sets and Sub-Game Perfection
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Lecture 14 - Backward Induction: Commitment, Spies, and First-Mover Advantages
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Lecture 13 - Sequential Games: Moral Hazard, Incentives, and Hungry Lions
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Lecture 12 - Evolutionary Stability: Social Convention, Aggression, and Cycles
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Lecture 11 - Evolutionary Stability: Cooperation, Mutation, and Equilibrium
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