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Author:   Charalambos D. Aliprantis ,  Subir K. Chakrabarti
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 19.30cm
Weight:   0.998kg
ISBN:  

9780195300222

ISBN 10:   019530022
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   22 March 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface Chapter 1. Choices 1.1. Functions 1.2. The optimization problem 1.3. First- and second-order conditions 1.4. Optimizing using the Lagrange method 1.5. Uncertainty and chance 1.6. Decision making under uncertainty Chapter 2. Decisions and Games 2.1. Two-person matrix games 2.2. Strategic games 2.3. Dominant and dominated strategies 2.4. Solving matrix games with mixed strategies 2.5. Examples of two-person games 2.6. Best responses and Nash equilibria 2.7. Games with incomplete information 2.8. Applications Chapter 3. Sequential Decisions 3.1. Graphs and trees 3.2. Single-person sequential decisions 3.3. Uncertainty and single-person decisions Chapter 4. Sequential Games 4.1. The structure of sequential games 4.2. Equilibria in sequential games 4.3. Applications of sequential games 4.4. Solving sequential games with behavior strategies Chapter 5. Auctions 5.1. Auctions with complete information 5.2. English auctions 5.3. Individual private-value auctions 5.4. Common-value auctions 5.5. Revenue equivalence Chapter 6. Bargaining 6.1. The Nash solution 6.2. Monotonicity in bargaining 6.3. The core of a bargaining game 6.4. An allocation rule: the Shapley value 6.5. Two-person sequential bargaining Chapter 7. Repeated Games 7.1. The structure and equilibria of repeated games 7.2. Subgame perfection in finite-horizon repeated games 7.3. Infinite-horizon repeated games 7.4. The Folk theorem and subgame perfect equilibrium 7.5. Applications of repeated and sequential games Chapter 8. Sequential Rationality 8.1. The market for lemons 8.2. Beliefs and strategies 8.3. Consistency of beliefs 8.4. Expected payoff 8.5. Sequential equilibrium 8.6. Perfect Bayesian equilibrium 8.7. Signaling games 8.8. Applications Chapter 9. Existence of Equilibria 9.1. Some Mathematical Preliminaries 9.2. Zero-sum games 9.3. Existence of equilibrium in strategic form games 9.4. Existence of equilibrium in sequential games 9.5. Existence of sequential equilibrium Bibliography

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The late Charalambos D. Aliprantis was distinguished Professor at the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University. During a career that spanned almost forty years, he published more than one hundred articles in the major journals in economic theory and mathematics and authored half a dozen books on economic theory and mathematics. Subir K. Chakrabarti is Professor in the Department of Economics at Indiana University and Purdue University at Indianapolis. He has written more than twenty publications, with articles in journals such as Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Mathematical Economics, International Economic Review, and Journal of Public Economics.

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