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Non-Cooperative Games

Course subject(s) Module 3: Non cooperative games Module 4: Negotiations

Lecture_Slides_Chapter_11.pdf Nash Equilibria and Non-Cooperative Solutions. In this lecture the differences between cooperative and non-cooperative games are explained, pay-off polygons are constructed, and the concept of pareto optimality is introduced.

Lecture_Slides_Chapter_12.pdf The Prisoner's Dilemma. Besides the famous prisoner's dilemma, three other well-known symmetric 2-player dilemma's are presented. Repeated games are investigated as a way to support cooperation where none existed in the single-shot dilemma.

Lecture_Slides_Chapter_13.pdf Application to Social Psychology: Trust, Suspicion and the F-Scale. Experimental games, contrasting pure game theory with empirical data of how people actually play games ``in the lab``.

Lecture_Slides_Chapter_14.pdf Strategic Moves. How to change the game by moving first, forcing the other player to move first, and / or using threats and promises.

Lecture_Slides_Chapter_15.pdf Application to Biology: Evolutionarily Stable Strategies. This lecture first explains how evolutionary game theory works, and then applies it to trust in networks of traders (the book uses a slightly different example of hawks and doves).

Lecture_Slides_on_Applications_to_Law.pdf This presentation is based on an article by P'ng (1983) modeling decisions to sue, settle, go to trial, and / or drop the case by two opposing parties in a legal conflict.

Lecture_Slides_on_Conflict_Analysis This lecture explains how to use Microsoft excel spreadsheets to calculate solutions for games, for linear programs in general, and introduces sensitivity analysis.

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