24 Episodes

  1. Lecture 24 - Asymmetric Information: Auctions and the Winner's Curse

    Published: 6/8/2018
  2. Lecture 23 - Asymmetric Information: Silence, Signaling and Suffering Education

    Published: 6/8/2018
  3. Lecture 22 - Repeated Games: Cheating, Punishment, and Outsourcing

    Published: 6/8/2018
  4. Lecture 21 - Repeated Games: Cooperation vs. the End Game

    Published: 6/8/2018
  5. Lecture 20 - Subgame Perfect Equilibrium: Wars of Attrition

    Published: 6/8/2018
  6. Lecture 19 - Subgame Perfect Equilibrium: Matchmaking and Strategic Investments

    Published: 6/8/2018
  7. Lecture 18 - Imperfect Information: Information Sets and Sub-Game Perfection

    Published: 6/8/2018
  8. Lecture 17 - Backward Induction: Ultimatums and Bargaining

    Published: 6/8/2018
  9. Lecture 16 - Backward Induction: Reputation and Duels

    Published: 6/8/2018
  10. Lecture 15 - Backward Induction: Chess, Strategies, and Credible Threats

    Published: 6/6/2018
  11. Lecture 14 - Backward Induction: Commitment, Spies, and First-Mover Advantages

    Published: 6/6/2018
  12. Lecture 13 - Sequential Games: Moral Hazard, Incentives, and Hungry Lions

    Published: 6/6/2018
  13. Lecture 12 - Evolutionary Stability: Social Convention, Aggression, and Cycles

    Published: 6/6/2018
  14. Lecture 11 - Evolutionary Stability: Cooperation, Mutation, and Equilibrium

    Published: 6/6/2018
  15. Lecture 10 - Mixed Strategies in Baseball, Dating and Paying Your Taxes

    Published: 6/4/2018
  16. Lecture 9 - Mixed Strategies in Theory and Tennis

    Published: 6/4/2018
  17. Lecture 8 - Nash Equilibrium: Location, Segregation and Randomization

    Published: 6/4/2018
  18. Lecture 7 - Nash Equilibrium: Shopping, Standing and Voting on a Line

    Published: 6/4/2018
  19. Lecture 6 - Nash Equilibrium: Dating and Cournot Overview

    Published: 6/3/2018
  20. Lecture 5 - Nash Equilibrium: Bad Fashion and Bank Runs

    Published: 6/3/2018

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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