Chapters in Game Theory

in Honor of Stef Tijs

"Chapters in Game Theory" was written to mark the occasion of the 65th birthday of Stef Tijs, who is regarded by many as the "godfather" of game theory in the Netherlands. The contributors all are indebted to Stef Tijs, as former PhD students or otherwise ...

Readings in games and information

This highly original collection brings together contemporary articles from a variety of sources to present the key topics in game theory. The book includes a combination of classic and contemporary readings from a range of books and journals that together present a complete resource for ...

Oligopoly pricing

old ideas and new tools

The "oligopoly problem"--the question of how prices are formed when the market contains only a few competitors--is one of the more persistent problems in the history of economic thought. In this book Xavier Vives applies a modern game-theoretic approach to develop a theory of ...

Toward a comparative institutional analysis

Markets are one of the most salient institutions produced by humans, and economists have traditionally analyzed the workings of the market mechanism. Recently, however, economists and others have begun to appreciate the many institution-related events and phenomena that have a significant impact on economic performance ...

The strategic constitution

Making, amending, and interpreting constitutions is a political game that can yield widespread suffering or secure a nation's liberty and prosperity. Given these high stakes, Robert Cooter argues that constitutional theory should trouble itself less with literary analysis and arguments over founders' intentions and ...

Market structure and competition policy

Game-Theoretic approaches

Economía y juegos

El objetivo de este libro es presentar de forma sistemática tanto los desarrollos fundamentales de la teoría de juegos como sus aplicaciones más relevantes a la economía. Ambas dimensiones, teoría y aplicaciones, se presentan de forma integrada y autocontenida. Primeramente, se introduce el marco general ...

Theorie des jeux et modelisation economique.

Game theory

introduction and applications

This text is a student introduction to game theory setting out the basics of the subject in a non-technical way. All discussion and explanation should be accessible to students of both economics and business. In addition to describing and explaining the basic theory, "Game Theory ...

Juegos e información

una introducción a la teoría de juegos

Se considera generalmente que la teoría de los juegos nació en 1944 con la publicación del libro de Neumann y Morgenstern 'The theory of games and economic behaviour', que por primera vez sostenía que cualquier conflicto podía analizarse en términos matemáticos. Sin embargo, fue sólo ...

Teoría de juegos en las Ciencias Sociales

conceptos y socluciones

La teoría matemática de los juegos sorprende no sólo por su relativa novedad, sino porque ofrece modelos abstractos de análisis sobre hechos tan concretos como la inflación o el comportamiento de mercados, cuyas soluciones permiten una planeación estratégica acorde con la dinámica misma de estos ...

Juegos para empresarios y economistas

Este libro está pensado para servir de texto a los estudiantes de administración de empresas y de economía, aunque se dirige también a cualquier persona que tenga interés en estudiar juegos de estrategia. Ofrece respuestas tanto para los que vayan a jugar en un casino ...

Game Theory for political scientists

Game theory is the mathematical analysis of strategic interaction. In the fifty years since the appearance of von Neumann and Morgenstern's classic "Theory of Games and Economic Behavior" (Princeton, 1944), game theory has been widely applied to problems in economics. Until recently, however, its ...

A course in game theory

A Course in Game Theory presents the main ideas of game theory at a level suitable for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, emphasizing the theory's foundations and interpretations of its basic concepts. The authors provide precise definitions and full proofs of results, sacrificing generalities ...

Pensar estratégicamente

un arma decisiva en la política, los negocios y la vida diaria

Pensar estratégicamente es el arte de ganarle la mano al adversario sabiendo que éste está intentando ganarnos la mano a nosotros. Es un arte de aplicación diaria, fundamentado en unos cuantos principios básicos que constituyen la incipiente ciencia de la estrategia. La premisa de la ...

Un primer curso en teoría de juegos

Este libro presenta una de las herramientas más poderosas del análisis económico moderno a una amplia audiencia: no sólo a los que se especializan en teoría de juegos pura, sino también a los que vayan a utilizar los modelos de teoría de juegos en campos ...

Game theory for applied economists

This book introduces one of the most powerful tools of modern economics to a wide audience: those who will later construct or consume game-theoretic models. Robert Gibbons addresses scholars in applied fields within economics who want a serious and thorough discussion of game theory but ...

The strategy of conflict

'In eminently lucid and often charming language, Professor Schelling's work opens to rational analysis a crucial field of politics, the international politics of threat, or as the current term goes, of deterrence. In this field, the author's analysis goes beyond what has been ...