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

George J Mailath

ISBN 10: 9811200769 / ISBN 13: 9789811200762

Published by WSPC, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Modeling Strategic Behavior: A Graduate Introduction To Game Theory And Mechanism Design (Ws Lecture Notes in Economics and Policy)
• Publisher: WSPC
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9811200769
• ISBN 13: 9789811200762
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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. These tools play a critical role in economic research.

Readership: Graduate and doctoral students interested in microeconomics, game theory, and mechanism design.

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.