Game Theory — Ben Polak

Episodes

• Introduction: five first lessons

  Episode 1
• Putting yourselves into other people's shoes

  Episode 2
• Iterative deletion and the median-voter theorem

  Episode 3
• Best responses in soccer and business partnerships

  Episode 4
• Nash equilibrium: bad fashion and bank runs

  Episode 5
• Nash equilibrium: dating and Cournot

  Episode 6
• Nash equilibrium: shopping, standing and voting on a line

  Episode 7
• Nash equilibrium: location, segregation and randomization

  Episode 8
• Mixed strategies in theory and tennis

  Episode 9
• Mixed strategies in baseball, dating and paying your taxes

  Episode 10
• Evolutionary stability: cooperation, mutation, and equilibrium

  Episode 11
• Evolutionary stability: social convention, aggression, and cycles

  Episode 12
• Sequential games: moral hazard, incentives, and hungry lions

  Episode 13
• Backward induction: commitment, spies, and first-mover advantages

  Episode 14
• Backward induction: chess, strategies, and credible threats

  Episode 15
• Backward induction: reputation and duels

  Episode 16
• Backward induction: ultimatums and bargaining

  Episode 17
• Imperfect information: information sets and sub-game perfection

  Episode 18
• Subgame perfect equilibrium: matchmaking and strategic investments

  Episode 19
• Subgame perfect equilibrium: wars of attrition

  Episode 20
• Repeated games: cooperation vs. the end game

  Episode 21
• Repeated games: cheating, punishment, and outsourcing

  Episode 22
• Asymmetric information: silence, signaling and suffering education

  Episode 23
• Asymmetric information: auctions and the winner's curse

  Episode 24