UBC ISCI 344 (2016)

Game Theory in Economics and Evolution (Fall 2016)

Exploration of human and animal interactions: integrating evolutionary and economic perspectives to investigate individual and social behaviour.

Introduction

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01 The Ultimatum Game

02 Extensive and normal form games

03 Dominance and Pareto optimality

04 Symmetric and zero-sum games

05 Sotto vs. Blotto and mixed Nash equilibria

06 Deriving mixed Nash equilibria

07 Deriving Expected Utility Theory

08 Evolutionary Game Theory

09 An asymmetric evolutionary game

10 Multiplayer games

11 Public goods with punishment

12 Repeated games

Lecture notes

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