Games for Business and Economics [Paperback]

Whether you're a veteran in the business game or have just sat down to play, this book will teach you the importance of rules and how to use them to your advantage. Here you can learn the basic strategies for being competitive in a variety of situations, from the blackjack table to the boardroom table. Pull up a chair and prepare to solve gaming problems as they relate to the business and economic environments today.Preface.

About the Author.

PART ONE: BASIC GAME THEORY.

An Introduction to Games and Their Theory.

Games of Chance.

Nash Equilibrium for Two-Person Games.

Mixed Strategies and Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibrium.

n-Person Games in Normal Form.

Noncooperative Market Games In Normal Form.

PART TWO: GAMES WITH SEQUENTIAL STRUCTURE.

Credibility and Subgame Perfect Equilibrium.

Repeated Games.

Evolutionary Stability and Bounded Rationality.

PART THREE: GAMES WITH IMPERFECT INFORMATION.

Signaling, Screening, and Sequential Equilibrium.

Games Between A Principal and an Agent.

Auctions.

PART FOUR: GAMES INVOLVING BARGAINING.

Two-Person Bargains.

n-Persons Bargaining and the Core.

PART FIVE: GAMES, MARKETING, AND POLITICS.

Two-Sided Markets And Matching Games.

Voting Games.

Index.

Roy Gardner was born in Peoria, Illinois and graduated summa cum laude from Bradley University. He served as an artillery officer in the U.S. Arm-Bielefeld, Mannheim, AmsterdamVietnam, winning a Bronze Star. He earned his Ph.D in economics from Cornell University in 1975. He has been at Indiana UnlóÇ