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| Laying the Foundations | |
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| Introduction to Strategic Reasoning | |
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| Who Wants To Be a Game Theorist? | |
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| A Sampling of Strategic Situations | |
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| Whetting Your Appetite: The Game of Concentration | |
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| Psychological Profile of a Player | |
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| Preferences | |
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| Beliefs | |
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| How Do Players Differ? | |
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| Playing the Gender Pronoun Game | |
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| Building A Model of A Strategic Situation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Extensive Form Games: Perfect Information | |
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| Baseball | |
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| Galileo Galilei and the Inquisition | |
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| Haggling at an Auto Dealership | |
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| Extensive Form Games: Imperfect Information | |
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| Mugging | |
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| U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Court | |
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| The Iraq War and Weapons of Mass Destruction | |
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| What is a Strategy? | |
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| Strategic Form Games | |
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| Tosca | |
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| Competition for Elected Office | |
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| The Science 84 Game | |
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| Moving from the Extensive Form and Strategic Form | |
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| Baseball | |
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| Galileo Galilei and the Inquisition | |
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| Haggling at an Auto Dealership | |
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| Going from the Strategic Form to the Extensive Form | |
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| Common Knowledge | |
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| A Few More Issues in Modeling Games | |
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| Solving Strategic form Games | |
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| Eliminating the Impossible: Solving A Game When Rationality is Common Knowledge | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Solving a Game When Players Are Rational | |
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| Strict Dominance | |
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| White Flight and Racial Segregation in Housing | |
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| Banning Cigarette Advertising on Television | |
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| Weak Dominance | |
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| Bidding at an Auction | |
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| The Proxy Bid Paradox at eBay | |
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| Solving a Game When Players Are Rational and Players Know Players Are Rational | |
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| Team-Project Game | |
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| Existence of God Game | |
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| Boxed Pigs Game | |
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| Solving a Game When Rationality is Common Knowledge | |
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| The Doping Game: Is it Rational for Athletes to Use Steroids? | |
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| Iterative Deletion of Strictly Dominated Strategies | |
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| Appendix: Strict and Weak Dominance | |
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| Appendix: Rationalizability (Advanced) | |
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| Stable Play: Nash Equilibria in Discrete Games with Two or Three Players | |
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| Defining Nash Equilibrium | |
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| Classic Two-Player Games | |
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| Prisoners' Dilemma | |
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| A Coordination Game: Driving Conventions | |
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| A Game of Coordination and Conflict: Telephone | |
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| An Out-guessing Game: Rock-Paper-Scissors | |
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| Conflict and Mutual Interest in Games | |
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| Best-Reply Method | |
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| Three-player Games | |
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| American Idol Fandom | |
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| Voting: Sincere or Devious? | |
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| Promotion and Sabotage | |
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| Foundations of Nash Equilibrium | |
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| Relationship to Rationality is Common Knowledge | |
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| The Definition of a Strategy, Revisited | |
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| Appendix: Nash Equilibrium | |
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| Stable Play: Nash Equilibria in Discrete N-Player Games | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Symmetric Games | |
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| The Sneetches | |
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| Airline Security | |
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| Operating Systems: Mac or Windows? | |
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| Applying for an Internship | |
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| Asymmetric Games | |
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| Entry into a Market | |
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| Civil Unrest | |
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| Selecting Among Nash Equilibria | |
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| Stable Play: Nash Equilibria in Continuous Games | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Solving for Nash Equilibria without Calculus | |
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| Price Competition with Identical Products | |
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| Neutralizing Price Competition with Price-Matching Guarantees | |
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| Competing for Elected Office | |
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| Solving for Nash Equilibria with Calculus (optional) | |
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| Price Competition with Differentiated Products | |
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| Tragedy of the Commons: Extinction of the Wooly Mammoth | |
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| Charitable Giving and the Power of Matching Grants | |
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| Keep 'Em Guessing: Randomized Strategies | |
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| Police Patrols and the Drug Trade | |
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| Making Decisions under Uncertainty | |
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| Probability and Expectation | |
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| Preferences over Uncertain Options | |
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| Ordinal vs. Cardinal Payoffs | |
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| Mixed Strategies and Nash Equilibrium | |
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| Back on the Beat | |
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| Some General Properties of a Nash Equilibrium in Mixed Strategies | |
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| Examples | |
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| Avranches Gap in World War II | |
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| Entry into a Market | |
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| Advanced Examples | |
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| Penalty Kick in Soccer | |
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| Slash'em Up: Friday the 13th | |
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| Bystander Effect | |
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| Games of Pure Conflict and Cautious Behavior | |
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| Appendix: Formal Description of Nash Equilibrium in Mixed Strategies | |
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| Solving Extensive Form Games | |
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| Taking Turns: Sequential Games of Perfect Information | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Backward Induction and Subgame Perfect Equilibrium | |
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| Examples | |
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| Cuban Missile Crisis | |
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| Enron and Prosecutorial Prerogative | |
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| Racial Discrimination and Sports | |
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| Waiting Games: Pre-emption and Attrition | |
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| Pre-emption | |
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| War of Attrition | |
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| Do People Reason Using Backward Induction? | |
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| Experimental Evidence and Backward Induction | |
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| A Logical Paradox with Backward Induction | |
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| Taking Turns in the Dark: Sequential Games of Imperfect Information | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Subgame Perfect Nash Equilibrium | |
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| British Intelligence | |
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| Examples | |
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| OS/2 | |
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| Agenda Control in the Senate | |
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| Commitment | |
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| Entry Deterrence | |
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| Managerial Contracts and Competition: East India Trade in the 17th Century | |
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| Games of Incomplete Information | |
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| I Know Something you Don't Know: Games with Private Information | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Game of Incomplete Information: The Munich Agreement | |
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| Bayesian Games and Bayes-Nash Equilibrium | |
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| Gunfight in the Wild West | |
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| When All Players Have Private Information: Auctions | |
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| Independent Private Values and Shading Your Bid | |
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| Common Value and the Winner's Curse | |
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| Voting on Committees and Juries | |
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| Strategic Abstention | |
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| Sequential Voting in the Jury Room | |
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| Appendix: A More Formal Definition of Bayes-Nash Equilibrium | |
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| Appendix: First Price Sealed Bid Auction with a Continuum of Types | |
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| Independent Private Values | |
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| Common Value | |
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| What you do Tells Me Who You Are: Signaling Games | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Perfect Bayes-Nash Equilibrium | |
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| Management Trainee | |
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| Examples | |
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| Lemons and the Market for Used Cars | |
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| Courtship | |
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| Brinkmanship | |
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| Appendix: Bayes' Rule and Updating Beliefs | |
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| Lies and the Lying Liars that Tell Them: Cheap Talk Games | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Communication in a Game-Theoretic World | |
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| Signaling Information | |
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| Defensive Medicine | |
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| Stock Recommendations | |
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| Signaling Intentions | |
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| Pre-play Communication in Theory | |
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| Pre-play communication in Practice | |
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| Repeated Games | |
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| Playing Forever: Repeated Interaction with Infinitely-Lived Players | |
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| Trench Warfare in World War I | |
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| Constructing a Repeated Game | |
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| Trench Warfare: Finite Horizon | |
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| Trench Warfare: Infinite Horizon | |
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| Some Experimental Evidence for the Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma | |
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| Appendix: Present Value of a Payoff Stream | |
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| Appendix: Dynamic Programming | |
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| Cooperation and Reputation: Applications of Repeated Interaction with Infinitely-Lived Players | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Menu of Punishments | |
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| Price-Fixing | |
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| Temporary Reversion to Moderate Rates | |
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| Price Wars: Temporary Reversion to Low Rates | |
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| A More Equitable Punishment | |
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| Quid Pro Quo | |
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| U.S. Congress and Pork Barrel Spending | |
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| Vampire Bats and Reciprocal Altruism | |
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| Reputation | |
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| Lending to Kings | |
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| Henry Ford and the $5 Workday | |
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| Imperfect Monitoring and Anti-Ballistic Missiles | |
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| Interaction in Infinitely-Lived Institutions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Cooperation with Overlapping Generations | |
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| Tribal Defense | |
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| Taking Care of Your Elderly Parents | |
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| Political Parties and Lame Duck Presidents | |
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| Cooperation in a Large Population | |
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| EBay | |
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| Medieval Law Merchant | |
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| Evolutionary Game Theory and Biology | |
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| Evolutionary Game Theory and Biology: Evolutionarily Stable Strategies | |
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| Introducing Evolutionary Game Theory | |
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| Hawk-Dove Conflict | |
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| Evolutionarily Stable Strategy | |
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| "Stayin' Alive" on a Cowpat | |
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| Properties of an ESS | |
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| Side-blotched Lizards | |
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| Multi-population Games | |
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| Parental Care | |
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| Evolution of Spite | |
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| Evolutionary Game Theory and Biology: Replicator Dynamics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Replicator Dynamics and Hawk-Dove | |
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| General Definition of the Replicator Dynamic | |
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| ESS and Attractors of the Replicator Dynamic | |
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| Examples of Strategic Situations | |
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| Stag Hunt | |
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| Handedness in Baseball | |
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| Evolution of Cooperation | |