Games of Strategy

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
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