Overview
- Provides a rigorous but easy-to-understand explanation of non-cooperative game theory
- Is organized by equilibrium concepts, not classes of games, making clear that an equilibrium is a prediction method for a variety of games
- Benefits students who want to go beyond introductory game theory
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Monographs in Mathematical Economics (MOME, volume 1)
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About this book
This is a textbook for university juniors, seniors, and graduate students majoring in economics, applied mathematics, and related fields. Each chapter is structured so that a core concept of that chapter is presented with motivations, useful applications are given, and related advanced topics are discussed for future study. Many helpful exercises at various levels are provided at the end of each chapter. Therefore, this book is most suitable for readers who intend to study non-cooperative game theory rigorously for both theoretical studies and applications.
Game theory consists of non-cooperative games and cooperative games. This book covers only non-cooperative games, which are major tools used in current economics and related areas. Non-cooperative game theory aims to provide a mathematical prediction of strategic choices by decision makers (players) in situations of conflicting interest. Through the logical analyses of strategic choices, we obtain a better understanding of social (economic, business) problems and possible remedies. The book contains many well-known games such as the prisoner’s dilemma, chicken (hawk–dove) game, coordination game, centipede game, and Cournot, Bertrand, and Stackelberg models in oligopoly. It also covers some advanced frameworks such as repeated games with non-simultaneous moves, repeated games with overlapping generations, global games, and voluntarily separable repeated prisoner’s dilemma, so that readers familiar with basic game theory can expand their knowledge. The author’s own research is reflected in topics such as formulations of information and evolutionary stability, which makes this book unique.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Non-Cooperative Game Theory
Authors: Takako Fujiwara-Greve
Series Title: Monographs in Mathematical Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55645-9
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Japan KK 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-55644-2Published: 27 June 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56415-7Published: 23 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-55645-9Published: 17 June 2015
Series ISSN: 2364-8279
Series E-ISSN: 2364-8287
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 260
Number of Illustrations: 64 b/w illustrations
Topics: Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences, Game Theory