Video Aula - Game Theory

Video Aula 1 sobre Teoria dos jogos ministrada por Ben Polak Da universidade de Yale.



Game Theory (ECON 159)

We introduce Game Theory by playing a game. We organize the game into players, their strategies, and their goals or payoffs; and we learn that we should decide what our goals are before we make choices. With some plausible payoffs, our game is a prisoners' dilemma. We learn that we should never choose a dominated strategy; but that rational play by rational players can lead to bad outcomes. We discuss some prisoners' dilemmas in the real world and some possible real-world remedies. With other plausible payoffs, our game is a coordination problem and has very different outcomes: so different payoffs matter. We often need to think, not only about our own payoffs, but also others' payoffs. We should put ourselves in others' shoes and try to predict what they will do. This is the essence of strategic thinking.

Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses

This course was recorded in Fall 2007.

Aula 2 Putting yourselves into other people's shoes

Aula 3 Iterative deletion and the median-voter theorem

Aula 4 Best responses in soccer and business partnerships

Aula 5 Nash equilibrium: bad fashion and bank runs

Aula 6 Nash equilibrium: dating and Cournot

Aula 7 Nash equilibrium: shopping, standing and voting on a line

Aula 8 Nash equilibrium: location, segregation and randomization

Aula 9 Mixed strategies in theory and tennis

Aula 10 Mixed strategies in baseball, dating and paying your taxes