Open Yale: Game Theory (ECON 159)

1. Introduction: five first lessons
   
2. Putting yourselves into other people's shoes
   
3. Iterative deletion and the median-voter theorem
   
4. Best responses in soccer and business partnerships
   
5. Nash equilibrium: bad fashion and bank runs
   
6. Nash equilibrium: dating and Cournot
   
7. Nash equilibrium: shopping, standing and voting on a line
   
8. Nash equilibrium: location, segregation and randomization
   
9. Mixed strategies in theory and tennis
   
10. Mixed strategies in baseball, dating and paying your taxes
    
11. Evolutionary stability: cooperation, mutation, and equilibrium
    
12. Evolutionary stability: social convention, aggression, and cycles
    
13. Sequential games: moral hazard, incentives, and hungry lions
    
14. Backward induction: commitment, spies, and first-mover advantages
    
15. Backward induction: chess, strategies, and credible threats
    
16. Backward induction: reputation and duels
    
17. Backward induction: ultimatums and bargaining
    
18. Imperfect information: information sets and sub-game perfection
    
19. Subgame perfect equilibrium: matchmaking and strategic investments
    
20. Subgame perfect equilibrium: wars of attrition
    
21. Repeated games: cooperation vs. the end game
    
22. Repeated games: cheating, punishment, and outsourcing
    
23. Asymmetric information: silence, signaling and suffering education
    
24. Asymmetric information: auctions and the winner's curse
    

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