February 2013
Beginner
136 pages
3h 4m
English
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A
Adverse selection, 68, 87–91
Advertising, purpose of, 106
B
Backward induction, 45–48
Basic Hotelling location game, 107–108
Birth of game theory, 3
Boiling in Oil contract, 71
Brinkmanship, 94
Business Week, 89
C
Centipede game, 54
Chicken game, 22–25
Common entries contest, 39
Common knowledge, 5–6
Communication, 71–73
Conditional average, 78
Constant-sum games, 27
Contracts, theory of
communication, 71–73
examples from ancient history, 73–76
hidden information vs. hidden actions, 67–71
misinformation, 71–73
signal jamming, 71–73
Cooperation, 97. See also Team cooperation, building
Cooperative coordination games, 25–26
Cream skimming, 78
Cut off communication, 95–96
D
Dating game, 23–25
Decision making
and game theory, 1, 2
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