Modeling Strategic Behavior: A Graduate Introduction To Game Theory And Mechanism Design (World Scientific Lecture Notes in Economics and Policy) - Softcover

Mailath, George J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9811200769 ISBN 13: 9789811200762

Publisher: WSPC, 2018

Synopsis

It is impossible to understand modern economics without knowledge of the basic tools of game theory and mechanism design. This book provides a graduate-level introduction to the economic modeling of strategic behavior. The goal is to teach Economics doctoral students the tools of game theory and mechanism design that all economists should know.

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About the Author

George J Mailath is Walter H Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, and Goldsmith Professor in the Research School of Economics, Australian National University.

Professor Mailath's published research in microeconomics includes papers on pricing, noncooperative game theory, evolutionary game theory, repeated games, social norms, and the theory of reputations. Oxford University Press published the co-authored (with Professor Larry Samuelson) graduate text Repeated Games and Reputations: Long-Run Relationships in August 2006. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Econometric Society, the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, and the Game Theory Society. Professor Mailath edited Theoretical Economics 2013 2017 and was the theory co-editor of the Econometric Society Monograph Series, 2008 2013. He has been an associate editor or editorial board member of Econometrica, The Review of Economic Studies, The Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, The International Economic Review, and Economic Theory.

Edition details

• Publisher: WSPC
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9811200769
• ISBN 13: 9789811200762
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 364