Yale Open Courses ECON 159: Game Theory
A podcast by William Sheppard
24 Episodes
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Lecture 24 - Asymmetric Information: Auctions and the Winner's Curse
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Lecture 23 - Asymmetric Information: Silence, Signaling and Suffering Education
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Lecture 22 - Repeated Games: Cheating, Punishment, and Outsourcing
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Lecture 21 - Repeated Games: Cooperation vs. the End Game
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Lecture 20 - Subgame Perfect Equilibrium: Wars of Attrition
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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 17 - Backward Induction: Ultimatums and Bargaining
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Lecture 16 - Backward Induction: Reputation and Duels
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Lecture 15 - Backward Induction: Chess, Strategies, and Credible Threats
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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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Lecture 10 - Mixed Strategies in Baseball, Dating and Paying Your Taxes
Published: 6/4/2018 -
Lecture 9 - Mixed Strategies in Theory and Tennis
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Lecture 8 - Nash Equilibrium: Location, Segregation and Randomization
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Lecture 7 - Nash Equilibrium: Shopping, Standing and Voting on a Line
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Lecture 6 - Nash Equilibrium: Dating and Cournot Overview
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Lecture 5 - Nash Equilibrium: Bad Fashion and Bank Runs
Published: 6/3/2018
About the Course This 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. https://oyc.yale.edu/economics/econ-159