دانلود کتاب Games of Strategy

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Cover (Games of Strategy)
Front Matter
Title page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Part One - Introduction and General Principles
1 - Basic Ideas and Examples
1 What is a Game of Strategy?
2 Some Examples and Stories of Strategic Games
3 Our Strategy for Studying Games of Strategy
2 - How to Think about Strategic Games
1 Decisions Versus Games
2 Classifying Games
3 Some Terminology and Background Assumptions
4 The Uses of Game Theory
5 The Structure of the Chapters to Follow
Part Two - Concepts and Techniques
3 - Games with Sequential Moves
1 Game Trees
2 Solving Games by Using Trees
3 Adding More Players
4 Order Advantages
5 Adding More Moves
6 Evidence Concerning Rollback
7 Strategies in Survivor
4 - Simultaneous-Move Games: Discrete Strategies
1 Depicting Simultaneous-Move Games with Discrete Strategies
2 Nash Equilibrium
3 Dominance
4 Best-Response Analysis
5 Three Players
6 Multiple Equilibria in Pure Strategies
7 No Equilibrium in Pure Strategies
5 - Simultaneous- Move Games: Continuous Strategies, Discussion, and Evidence
1 Pure Strategies that are Continuous Variables
2 Critical Discussion of the Nash Equilibrium Concept
3 Rationalizability
4 Empirical Evidence Concerning Nash Equilibrium
6 - Combining Sequential and Simultaneous Moves
1 Games with both Simultaneous and Sequential Moves
2 Changing the Order of Moves in a Game
3 Change in the Method of Analysis
4 Three-Player Games
7 - Simultaneous-Move Games: Mixed Strategies
1 What is a Mixed Strategy?
2 Mixing Moves
3 Nash Equilibrium as a System of Beliefs and Responses
4 Mixing in Non-Zero-Sum Games
5 General Discussion of Mixed-Strategy Equilibria
6 Mixing When One Player has Threeor More Pure Strategies
7 Mixing When Both Players have Three Strategies
8 How to Use Mixed Strategies in Practice
9 Evidence on Mixing
Part Three - Some Broad Classes of Games and Strategies
8 - Uncertainty and Information
1 Imperfect Information: Dealing with Risk
2 Asymmetric Information: Basic Ideas
3 Direct Communication, or “Cheap Talk”
4 Adverse Selection, Signaling, and Screening
5 Signaling in the Labor Market
6 Equilibria in Two -Player Signaling Games
Appendix: Risk Attitudes and Bayes’ Theorem
1 Attitudes Toward Risk And Expected Utility
2 Infering Probabilities from observing consequences
9 - Strategic Moves
1 A Classification of Strategic Moves
2 Credibility of Strategic Moves
3 Commitments
4 Threats and Promises
5 Some Additional Topics
6 Acquiring Credibility
7 Countering Your Opponent’s Strategic Moves
10 - The Prisoners’ Dilemma and Repeated Games
1 The Basic Game (Review)
2 Solutions I: Repetition
3 Solutions II: Penalties and Rewards
4 Solutions III: Leadership
5 Experimental Evidence
6 Real-World Dilemmas
Appendix: Infinite Sums
11 - Collective-Action Games
1 Collective-Action Games with Two Players
2 Collective-Action Problems in Large Groups
3 Spillovers, or Externalities
4 A Brief History of Ideas
5 “Help!”: A Game of Chicken with Mixed Strategies
12 - Evolutionary Games
1 The Framework
2 Prisoners’ Dilemma
3 Chicken
4 The Assurance Game
5 Three Phenotypes in the Population
6 The Hawk–Dove Game
7 Interactions by Population and Across Species
8 Evolution of Cooperation and Altruism
13 - Mechanism Design
1 Price Discrimination
3 Cost-Plus and Fixed-Price Contracts
4 Evidence Concerning Information Revelation Mechanisms
5 Incentives for Effort: The Simplest Case
6 Incentives for Effort: Evidence and Extensions
Part Four - Applications to Specific Strategic Situations
14 - Brinkmanship the Cuban Missile Crisis
1 A Brief Narrative of Events
2 A Simple Game-Theoretic Explanation
3 Accounting for additional complexities
4 A Probabilistic Threat
5 Practicing Brinkmanship
15 - Strategy and Voting
1 Voting Rules and Procedures
2 Voting Paradoxes
3 Evaluating voting systems
4 Strategic Manipulation of Votes
5 The Median Voter Theorem
16 - Bidding Strategy and Auction Design
1 Types of Auctions
2 The Winner’s Curse
3 Bidding Strategies
4 All-Pay Auctions
5 How to Sell at Auction
6 Some Added Twists to Consider
7 aditional reading
17 - Bargaining
1 Nash’s Cooperative Solution
2 Variable-Threat Bar
3 Alternating-Offers Model I: Total Value Decays
4 Experimental Evidence
5 Alternating-Offers Model II: Impatience
6 Manipulating Information in Bargaining
7 Bargaining with Many Parties and Issues
Glossary
Index