Intro to Game Theory

Tutors: Will Braynen, Simon Angus

Content (provisional)

1. Why Game theory? When Game theory?
2. Simultaneous Games
   1. The Nash Equilibrium (NE)
   2. Some standard games (Prisoner's Dilemma, Stag Hunt)
3. Sequential Games
   1. Sub-game perfect NE
4. Repeated Games
5. Computational Examples (NetLogo)
   1. Games and Interaction structures
6. Applications and Links to other fields
   1. Biology
   2. Economics
   3. Philosophy
   4. Psychology

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Additional reading and concepts

1. Aumann's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlated_equilibrium">Correlated Equilibrium (CE)</a> concept (1974), which allows all players get higher payoffs than with NE in some games.