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Game Theory with Engineering Applications
Spring 2010
Topics
- Introduction
- Strategic form games
- Strategic form games: solution concepts
- Existence of a Nash equilibrium
- Continuous and discontinuous games
- Supermodular games
- Supermodular and potential games
- Computation of Nash equilibrium in finite games
- Evolution and learning in games
- Learning in games
- Extensive form games I
- Extensive form games II
- Nash bargaining solution
- Repeated games I
- Repeated games II
- Games with incomplete information: Bayesian Nash equilibria
- Games with incomplete information: Bayesian Nash equilibria and perfect Bayesian equilibria
- Mechanism design I
- Mechanism design II
- Social choice and voting theory
- Project presentations
Readings
- Nisan, Noam, Tim Roughgarden, Eva Tardos, and Vijay V. Vazirani. Algorithmic Game Theory . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780521872829.
- Mas-Colell, Andreu, Michael D. Whinston, and Jerry R. Green. Microeconomic Theory . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780195073409.
- Myerson, Roger B. Game Theory . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780674341166.
- Krishna, Vijay. Auction Theory . 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780123745071.
- Basar, Tamer, and Geert Jan Olsder. Dynamic Noncooperative Game Theory . Philadelphia, PA: SIAM, 1999. ISBN: 9780898714296.
- Young, H. Peyton. Strategic Learning and Its Limits . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780199269181.
- Young, H. Peyton. Individual Strategy and Social Structure: An Evolutionary Theory of Institutions . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780691086873.
- Osborne, Martin J. An Introduction to Game Theory . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780195128956.
- Gibbons, Robert. Game Theory for Applied Economists . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780691003955.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.