Overview
- Provides a comprehensive overview of the theory of dynamic games played over event trees
- Introduces readers to the main concepts of noncooperative and cooperative games
- Highlights applications of dynamic games in environmental economics, management science, and engineering
Part of the book series: Theory and Decision Library C (TDLC, volume 51)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Static Games
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Deterministic Dynamic Games
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Dynamic Games Played over Event Trees
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About this book
This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of noncooperative and cooperative dynamic games involving uncertain parameter values, with the stochastic process being described by an event tree. Primarily intended for graduate students of economics, management science and engineering, the book is self-contained, as it defines and illustrates all relevant concepts originally introduced in static games before extending them to a dynamic framework. It subsequently addresses the sustainability of cooperative contracts over time and introduces a range of mechanisms to help avoid such agreements breaking down before reaching maturity. To illustrate the concepts discussed, the book provides various examples of how dynamic games played over event trees can be applied to environmental economics, management science, and engineering.
Reviews
Vivek Borkar, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
"An advanced textbook on dynamic games played on event trees is long overdue. This book, written by leading experts in the field, will be of great use to modellers of economic behaviour under uncertainty. No doubt it will soon become a classic."
Alain Haurie, University of Geneva, and GERAD/HEC Montréal
"This book by Parilina, Reddy, and Zaccour provides a well-organized treatment of dynamic games on event trees under cooperative as well as noncooperative modes of play, constituting possibly the first such comprehensive study of this topic in text-book form."
Tamer Başar, University of Illinois, USA
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Puduru Viswanadha Reddy received a Ph.D. degree in operations research from Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, in 2011. He held a postdoctoral appointment at GERAD,HEC Montréal, Canada during 2012-2015. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, Chennai, India. His research interests are in game theory and in the control of multiagent systems.
Georges Zaccour holds the Chair in Game Theory and Management and is full professor of Management Science at HEC Montréal, Canada. He holds a Ph.D. in management science, an M.Sc. in international business from HEC Montréal and a licence in mathematics and economics from Université Paris-Dauphine, France. He served as director of GERAD, an interuniversity research center and director of the Ph.D. program at HEC Montréal. His research areas are dynamic games, optimal control and operations research, areas in which he has published more than two hundred papers and co-edited fifteen volumes. He co-authors the books Differential Games in Marketing and Games and Dynamic Games.He is editor-in-chief of Dynamic Games and Applications and fellow of The Royal Society of Canada. He was president of the International Society of Dynamic Games.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Theory and Applications of Dynamic Games
Book Subtitle: A Course on Noncooperative and Cooperative Games Played over Event Trees
Authors: Elena Parilina, Puduru Viswanadha Reddy, Georges Zaccour
Series Title: Theory and Decision Library C
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16455-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-16454-5Published: 24 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-16457-6Published: 24 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-16455-2Published: 23 November 2022
Series ISSN: 0924-6126
Series E-ISSN: 2194-3044
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 259
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences, Applications of Mathematics, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods