NPTEL : Game Theory for Economists (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Dr. Debarshi Das


Lecture 1 - Definition of Game Theory and Rational Choice

Lecture 2 - Interacting Decision Makers

Lecture 3 - Strategic Games : Examples

Lecture 4 - Matching Pennies, Stag Hunt and Nash Equilibrium

Lecture 5 - Examples of Nash Equilibrium

Lecture 6 - Altruism and Prisoner’s Dilemma

Lecture 7 - Variants Stag Hunt Game, Hawk Dove and Coordination Game

Lecture 8 - Public Good Provision, Strict Nash Equilibrium

Lecture 9 - Best Response Functions

Lecture 10 - Strictly and Weakly Dominated Action

Lecture 11 - Application of Weak Domination: Voting

Lecture 12 - Symmetric Games and Symmetric Equilibrium

Lecture 13 - Cournot Model of Oligopoly

Lecture 14 - Different Aspects of Cournot Model

Lecture 15 - Further Aspects of Cournot Model

Lecture 16 - Cournot & Bertrand Models

Lecture 17 - Different Aspects of Bertrand Model

Lecture 18 - Electoral Competition 1

Lecture 19 - Different Aspects of Hotelling Model

Lecture 20 - Hotteling Model: Concluding Remarks

Lecture 21 - War of Attrition

Lecture 22 - Second Price Sealed Bid Auction

Lecture 23 - Further Aspects of Second Price Auction

Lecture 24 - First Price Auction

Lecture 25 - All Pay Auction, Multi Unit Auction

Lecture 26 - Accident Laws

Lecture 27 - Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibrium: Introduction

Lecture 28 - Mixed Strategy, Mixed Strategy Equilibrium

Lecture 29 - Mixed Strategy Equilibrium: Concept and Examples

Lecture 30 - Characterisation of Mixed Strategy Equilibrium

Lecture 31 - Dominated Actions and Iterated Elimination

Lecture 32 - Rationalisability and Beliefs

Lecture 33 - Extensive Games: Introduction

Lecture 34 - Strategy and Equilibrium

Lecture 35 - Nash Equilibrium and Its Problems

Lecture 36 - Subgame Perfect Nash Equilibrium

Lecture 37 - Backward Induction

Lecture 38 - Backward Induction: Exercises

Lecture 39 - Ultimatum Game

Lecture 40 - Stackelberg Duopoly Model