Lecture Notes and Short Texts in Game Theory

These are the extensive materials used in a course "taught to students in their second year of the economics PhD program at the University of Arizona during the 1992-1997 period." More than 260 pages of material are archived, in six course sections; "Strategic Form Games", "Nonequilibrium Solution Concepts", "Nash Equilibrium", "Extensive-form Games," "Repeated Games" and "Bayesian Games".

Al Roth's game theory, experimental economics and market design page includes introductory articles called: Game-Theoretic Models of Bargaining, Two-Sided Matching Models, Experimental Economics, Is Economics a Science?, and Matching and Allocation in Medicine and Health Care.

Course page for a 2014 course based around Dixit and Susan Skeath's text Games of Strategy. Includes a 95-page PDF booklet of detailed lecture notes and problems, reading list for the 12-week course, and problem sets and tests with answers. This link goes to the Archive.org copy of the site.

At the foot of this page are extensive notes from 15 lectures by a philosopher on game theory and rational choice. Topics include the Allais and Ellsburg paradoxes, criteria of rationality and evolutionary considerations.

This document lists historical milestones in the development of game theory up to 2012, including the awarding of the Nobel Prizes to Nash, Harsanyi and Selten (1994), Aumann and Schelling (2005), and Roth and Shapley (2012). Entries are short paragraphs within a timeline. It includes bibliographical notes for reference. The site was taken down: this link goes to the Archive.org copy.

This 21-page PDF, dated December 2011, is intended as a basic introduction to game theory for students in "courses [which] assumed familiarity with game theory but did not require it as a prerequisite." The first section introduces normal-form games up to the concept of a Nash Equilibrium. The other section discusses sequentiality and backward induction. The booklet concludes with some exercises.

This set of talks was given on 8 January 2009 as part of the PhD seminar series organised by the School of Economics and Finance of the University of St Andrews. Prof. Thomas Lux speaks on how economic systems can be seen as evolutionary models, where agents interact with each other and a selection process favours the most successful. He introduces underlying dynamical systems as well as the necessary game theoretic concepts. Video can be downloaded in WMV format and presentation slides / handouts are also available.

Archived handouts, slides and exercises from a 2009 course, organised around 21 lectures. The course contains many case studies.

This is the companion site for Rasmusen's game theory text, with downloadable chapters in PDF format. Available from the same site are the diagrams from the book in .jpg format.

This 134-page PDF booklet was compiled from lecture notes for a course in Game Theory at the University of Kaiserslautern. The course was delivered in Winter 2003/04 and the manuscript was released in March 2007. After an introductory chapter discussing two-person games, the chapters are "Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem and Nash's Equilibrium Theorem", "More general Equilibrium Theorems", "Cooperative Games", and "Differential Games".

This is a single-page summary of the Game Theory chapter of the authors' "Finite Mathematics" textbook. It includes a simple interactive game in Javascript. Links at the top of the page take you to an interactive quiz on the topic and a game solver. It has been produced by Stefan Waner and Steven R. Costenoble of Hofstra University.

Part of the Open Yale service, this course from 2007 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 signalling are discussed and applied to games played in class and to examples drawn from economics, politics, the movies, and elsewhere. It is taught by Ben Polak and features videos, audio, course syllabus and lecture notes.

Detailed lecture notes, slides, problem sets and exam questions from Muhamet Yildiz's 'Economic applications of game theory' course in 2004. The syllabus, lecture notes, slides, exams and problem sets are available to download as PDF files. It includes supplementary notes on rationaliazability, partnership games and forward induction.

This is an introduction to the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. It allows the reader to play against three strategies, and discusses what is learnt about co-operation and forgiveness by egotists. It ends with discussion questions and further reading suggestions.

This 39-page PDF document is a draft of an encyclopedia entry and has been released as a research report by LSE's Centre for Discrete and Applicable Mathematics. It has ten sections and includes a glossary. The final version was published in volume 2 of the Encyclopedia of Information Systems in 2002.

Detailed notes and slides from a course of 18 lectures are archived here by MIT's Open CourseWare project. The course was given in 2000, 2001 and 2002. The course covers, "Analysis of strategic behavior in multi-person economic settings. Introduction to Nash equilibrium and its refinements: subgame-perfect equilibrium and sequential equilibrium. Applications drawn from labor economics, the economics of organization, industrial organization, international trade, and macroeconomics."

The Nobel Foundation makes available a great deal of material on each of the Economics prize winners, including video of each Prize Lecture since Robert Mundell in 1999. As well as a lay introduction to each prize winner's research, there are "Advanced information" links giving a more technical explanation. This link is to the Economics Network's quick index of lecture videos and related materials on the site. Each video is a full lecture (usually between 40 and 60 minutes) with good audio and video quality, and pitched at a non-technical audience. Transcripts of each lecture are available.