Game Theory

Institution: Yale
Lecturer: Ben Polak
University Course Code: Econ 159
Subject: #econ #economics
Description: 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.