Yale Open Courses ECON 159: Game Theory

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

Lecture 23 - Asymmetric Information: Silence, Signaling and Suffering Education

Lecture 22 - Repeated Games: Cheating, Punishment, and Outsourcing

Lecture 21 - Repeated Games: Cooperation vs. the End Game

Lecture 20 - Subgame Perfect Equilibrium: Wars of Attrition

Lecture 19 - Subgame Perfect Equilibrium: Matchmaking and Strategic Investments

Lecture 18 - Imperfect Information: Information Sets and Sub-Game Perfection

Lecture 17 - Backward Induction: Ultimatums and Bargaining

Lecture 16 - Backward Induction: Reputation and Duels

Lecture 15 - Backward Induction: Chess, Strategies, and Credible Threats

Lecture 14 - Backward Induction: Commitment, Spies, and First-Mover Advantages

Lecture 13 - Sequential Games: Moral Hazard, Incentives, and Hungry Lions

Lecture 12 - Evolutionary Stability: Social Convention, Aggression, and Cycles

Lecture 11 - Evolutionary Stability: Cooperation, Mutation, and Equilibrium

Lecture 10 - Mixed Strategies in Baseball, Dating and Paying Your Taxes

Lecture 9 - Mixed Strategies in Theory and Tennis

Lecture 8 - Nash Equilibrium: Location, Segregation and Randomization

Lecture 7 - Nash Equilibrium: Shopping, Standing and Voting on a Line

Lecture 6 - Nash Equilibrium: Dating and Cournot Overview

Lecture 5 - Nash Equilibrium: Bad Fashion and Bank Runs

Lecture 4 - Best Responses in Soccer and Business Partnerships

Lecture 3 - Iterative Deletion and the Median-Voter Theorem

Lecture 2 - Putting Yourselves into Other People's Shoes

Introduction: Five First Lessons