Course Archives: Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore

Course Archives Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit

Course:Game Theory
Level: Postgraduate
Time: Currently not offered

Syllabus: Non-Cooperative Games: Games in normal form. Rationalizability and iterated deletion of never-best responses. Nash equilibrium: existence, properties and applications. Two-person Zero Sum Games. Games in extensive form: perfect recall and behavoiour strategies. Credibility and Subgame. Perfect Nash equilibrium. Bargaining. Repeated Games; Folk Theorems.
Introduction to Cooperative Games (TU Games).

Reference Texts:

1. A. R. Karlin and Y. Peres. Game Theory, Alive (2016).
2. T. Ferguson. A Course in Game Theory (2020).
3. D. Easley and J. Kleinberg. Networks, Crowds, and Markets (2010).
4. M. Maschler, E. Solan and S. Zamir. Game Theory (2013).
5. M. J. Osborne and A. Rubinstein. A Course in Game Theory (1994).
6. Roger B. Myerson. Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict (1991).
7. D. Fudenberg and J. Tirole. Game Theory (1991).
8. Y. Narahari. Game Theory and Mechanism Design (2014).

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