耶鲁大学开放课程:博弈论介绍

耶鲁大学开放课程：博弈论
Open Yale course：Game Theory
课程类型: 经济

讲师介绍：

Ben Polak教授任职于耶鲁大学管理学院经济系。他在剑桥大学Trinity College获得学士学位，在西北大学获得硕士学位，在哈佛大学获得博士学位。他是微观经济理论和经济史方面的专家。他的论文在Economic Letters、Journal of Economic Theory、Journal of Economic History、Journal of Legal Studies、 Journal of Theoretical and Institutional Economics、Econometrica等学术期刊多次发表。他最近的研究是“广义功利主义和海萨尼的公正观察员定理”和“平均分散的偏好”

Ben Polak is a Professor of Economics and Management in the Department of Economics and the School of Management at Yale University. He received his B.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge University, his M.A. from Northwestern University, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. A specialist in microeconomic theory and economic history, he has published in Economic Letters, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Legal Studies, Journal of Theoretical and Institutional Economics, and Econometrica. His current projects include "Generalized Utilitarianism and Harsanyi's Impartial Observer Theorem" and "Mean-Dispersion Preferences."

课程介绍：

这门课程是系统介绍有关博弈论和战略思想。比如支配思想、落后的感应、纳什均衡、进化稳定性、承诺，信誉，信息不对称，逆向选择等。并在课堂上提供了各种游戏以及经济、政治，电影和其他方面的案例来讨论。

This course is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking. Ideas such as dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, evolutionary stability, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, adverse selection, and signaling are discussed and applied to games played in class and to examples drawn from economics, politics, the movies, and elsewhere.

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课程目录：
1.Introduction: five first lessons
简介：五年前的教训
2.Putting yourselves into other people's shoes
设身处地为他人着想
3.Iterative deletion and the median-voter theorem
迭代删除和位数选民定理
4.Best responses in soccer and business partnerships
最佳反应在足球和商业伙伴关系
5.Nash equilibrium: bad fashion and bank runs
纳什均衡：坏时尚及银行挤兑
6.Nash equilibrium: dating and Cournot
纳什均衡：约会和诺
7.Nash equilibrium: shopping, standing and voting on a line
纳什均衡：购物，并参加表决的常委会上线
8.Nash equilibrium: location, segregation and randomization
纳什均衡：定位，隔离和随机
9.Mixed strategies in theory and tennis
混合战略的理论和网球
10.Mixed strategies in baseball, dating and paying your taxes
混合战略棒球，约会和支付您的税
11.Evolutionary stability: cooperation, mutation, and equilibrium
进化稳定：合作，突变，与平衡
12.Evolutionary stability: social convention, aggression, and cycles
进化稳定：社会公约，侵略，和周期
13.Sequential games: moral hazard, incentives, and hungry lions
顺序游戏：道德风险，奖励和饥饿的狮子
14.Backward induction: commitment, spies, and first-mover advantages
落后的感应：承诺，间谍，和先行者优势
15.Backward induction: chess, strategies, and credible threats
落后的感应：国际象棋，战略和可信的威胁
16.Backward induction: reputation and duels
落后的感应：声誉和决斗
17.Backward induction: ultimatums and bargaining
落后的感应：最后通牒和讨价还价
18.Imperfect information: information sets and sub-game perfection
不完全信息：信息集和子博弈完美
19.Subgame perfect equilibrium: matchmaking and strategic investments
子博弈完美均衡：招商引资和战略投资
20.Subgame perfect equilibrium: wars of attrition
子博弈完美均衡：战争的消耗
21.Repeated games: cooperation vs. the end game
重复博弈：合作与结局
22.Repeated games: cheating, punishment, and outsourcing
重复博弈：作弊，惩罚和外包
23.Asymmetric information: silence, signaling and suffering education
信息不对称：沉默，信令和苦难教育
24.Asymmetric information: auctions and the winner's curse
信息不对称：拍卖和获奖者的诅咒

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