Strategies and Games: Theory and Practice

Pt. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 1. First Look At The Applications -- Ch. 2. First Look At The Theory -- Pt. 2. Strategic Form Games: Theory And Practice -- Ch. 3. Strategic Form Games And Dominant Strategies -- Ch. 4. Dominance Solvability -- Ch. 5. Nash Equilibrium -- Ch. 6. Application: Cournot Duopoly -- Ch. 7. Application: The Commons Problem -- Ch. 8. Mixed Strategies -- Ch. 9. Two Applications: Natural Monopoly And Bankruptcy Law -- Ch. 10. Zero-sum Games -- Pt. 3. Extensive Form Games: Theory And Applications -- Ch. 11. Extensive Form Games And Backward Induction -- Ch. 12. Application: Research And Development -- Ch. 13. Subgame Perfect Equilibrium -- Ch. 14. Finitely Repeated Games -- Ch. 15. Infinitely Repeated Games -- Ch. 16. Application: Competition And Collusion In The Nasdaq Stock Market -- Ch. 17. Application: Opec -- Ch. 18. Dynamic Games With An Application To The Commons Problem -- Pt. 4. Asymmetric Information Games: Theory And Applications -- Ch. 19. Moral Hazard And Incentives Theory -- Ch. 20. Games With Incomplete Information -- Ch. 21. Application: Incomplete Information In A Cournot Duopoly -- Ch. 22. Mechanism Design, The Revelation Principle, And Sales To An Unknown Buyer -- Ch. 23. Application: Auctions -- Ch. 24. Signaling Games And The Lemons Problem -- Pt. 5. Foundations -- Ch. 25. Calculus And Optimization -- Ch. 26. Probability And Expectation -- Ch. 27. Utility And Expected Utility -- Ch. 28. Existence Of Nash Equilibria. Prajit K. Dutta. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.