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A online course on game theory, covering everything from pure strategy and mixed Nash equilibrium, to subgame perfect equilibrium, to Bayesian Nash equilibrium, to perfect Bayesian equilibrium, with splashes of expected utility theory and repeated games.

William Spaniel

6:44

Game Theory 101 (#1): Introduction

William Spaniel

5:56

Game Theory 101 (#2): The Prisoner's Dilemma and Strict Dominance

William Spaniel

7:11

Game Theory 101 (#3): Iterated Elimination of Strictly Dominated Strategies

William Spaniel

8:22

Game Theory 101 (#4): Pure Strategy Nash Equilibrium and the Stag Hunt

William Spaniel

5:23

Game Theory 101 (#5): What Is a Nash Equilibrium?

William Spaniel

8:24

Game Theory 101 (#6): Best Responses

William Spaniel

7:14

Game Theory 101 (#7): Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibrium and Matching Pennies

William Spaniel

9:34

Game Theory 101 (#8): The Mixed Strategy Algorithm

William Spaniel

4:29

Game Theory 101 (#9): How NOT to Write a Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibrium

William Spaniel

8:53

Game Theory 101 (#10): Battle of the Sexes

William Spaniel

6:21

Game Theory 101 (#11): Calculating Payoffs

William Spaniel

7:33

Game Theory 101 (#12): Strict Dominance in Mixed Strategies

William Spaniel

5:50

Game Theory 101 (#13): Weak Dominance

William Spaniel

4:42

Game Theory 101 (#14): Infinitely Many Equilibria

William Spaniel

6:52

Game Theory 101 (#15): The Odd Rule

William Spaniel

7:37

Game Theory 101 (#16): Subgame Perfect Equilibrium

William Spaniel

4:49

Game Theory 101 (#17): Backward Induction

William Spaniel

3:29

Game Theory 101 (#18): How NOT to Write a Subgame Perfect Equilibrium

William Spaniel

8:36

Game Theory 101 (#19): Multiple Subgame Perfect Equilibria

William Spaniel

8:49

Game Theory 101 (#20): Games with Stages

William Spaniel

7:45

Game Theory 101 (#21): Punishment Strategies

William Spaniel

4:45

Game Theory 101 (#22): Tying Hands and Burning Bridges

William Spaniel

6:06

Game Theory 101 (#23): Commitment Problems

William Spaniel

4:40

Game Theory 101 (#24): The Centipede Game

William Spaniel

12:06

Game Theory 101 (#25): Problems with Backward Induction

William Spaniel

8:03

Game Theory 101 (#26): Forward Induction

William Spaniel

9:24

Game Theory 101 (#27): Probability Distributions

William Spaniel

14:52

Game Theory 101 (#28): Generalized Battle of the Sexes

William Spaniel

9:14

Game Theory 101 (#29): Knife-Edge Equilibria

William Spaniel

9:42

Game Theory 101 (#30): Soccer Penalty Kicks

William Spaniel

5:18

Game Theory 101 (#30.5): Establishing Causation

William Spaniel

10:39

Game Theory 101 (#31): Comparative Statics

William Spaniel

10:59

Game Theory 101 (#31.5): Comparative Statics without Derivatives

William Spaniel

8:09

Game Theory 101 (#32): The Support of Mixed Strategies

William Spaniel

8:07

Game Theory 101 (#33): A Trick with Weak Dominance

William Spaniel

6:31

Game Theory 101 (#34): Rock Paper Scissors

William Spaniel

9:23

Game Theory 101 (#35): Symmetric, Zero Sum Games

William Spaniel

10:03

Game Theory 101 (#36): Modified Rock Paper Scissors

William Spaniel

10:16

Game Theory 101 (#37): Mixing among Three Strategies

William Spaniel

4:56

Game Theory 101 (#38): A Game with No Equilibria

William Spaniel

4:50

Game Theory 101 MOOC (#39): Duels

William Spaniel

11:02

Game Theory 101 (#40): Hotelling's Game and the Median Voter Theorem

William Spaniel

6:49

Game Theory 101 (#41): Second Price Auctions

William Spaniel

10:13

Game Theory 101 (#42): Expected Utility Theory

William Spaniel

8:45

Game Theory 101 (#43): Completeness

William Spaniel

6:39

Game Theory 101 (#44): Transitivity

William Spaniel

7:31

Game Theory 101 (#45): Rationality

William Spaniel

9:55

Game Theory 101 (#46): Condorcet's Paradox and Social Preferences

William Spaniel

6:08

Game Theory 101 (#47): Lotteries

William Spaniel

5:17

Game Theory 101 (#48): Independence over Lotteries

William Spaniel

16:26

Game Theory 101 (#49): The Allais Paradox

William Spaniel

6:56

Game Theory 101 (#50): Continuity

William Spaniel

10:14

Game Theory 101 (#51): Expected Utility Transformations

William Spaniel

9:56

Game Theory 101 (#52): Pareto Efficiency

William Spaniel

11:45

Game Theory 101 (#53): Risk Averse, Risk Neutral, and Risk Acceptant Preferences

William Spaniel

11:17

Game Theory 101 (#54): Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma (Finite)

William Spaniel

7:11

Game Theory 101 (#55): Discount Factors

William Spaniel

8:38

Game Theory 101 (#56): Geometric Series and Infinite Payoffs

William Spaniel

9:19

Game Theory 101 (#57): The One-Shot Deviation Principle

William Spaniel

18:00

Game Theory 101 (#58): Grim Trigger in the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma

William Spaniel

13:12

Game Theory 101 (#59): Tit-for-Tat in the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma

William Spaniel

9:34

Game Theory 101 (#60): Tit-for-Tat Isn't Subgame Perfect

William Spaniel

11:03

Game Theory 101 (#61): The Folk Theorem

William Spaniel

13:08

Game Theory 101 (#62): Repeated Games and the Prediction Problem

William Spaniel

6:51

Game Theory 101 (#63): Incomplete Information

William Spaniel

11:02

Game Theory 101 (#64): Bayesian Nash Equilibrium

William Spaniel

16:14

Game Theory 101 (#65): Solving for Bayesian Nash Equilibrium

William Spaniel

16:06

Game Theory 101 (#66): Ex Ante and Interim Dominance

William Spaniel

10:56

Game Theory 101 (#67): Why Are There Antes in Poker?

William Spaniel

10:30

Game Theory 101 (#68): Is More Information Always Better?

William Spaniel

20:44

Game Theory 101 (#69): Cutpoint Strategies, Continuous Type Spaces, and Bayesian Nash Equilibrium

William Spaniel

17:23

Game Theory 101 (#70): The Purification Theorem

William Spaniel

13:34

Game Theory 101 (#71): Bayes' Rule

William Spaniel

17:05

Game Theory 101 (#72): The Winner's Curse, Part 1

William Spaniel

13:21

Game Theory 101 (#73): The Winner's Curse, Part 2

William Spaniel

7:52

Game Theory 101 (#74): Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium

William Spaniel

9:33

Game Theory 101 (#75): Screening Games

William Spaniel

13:58

Game Theory 101 (#76): Adverse Selection

William Spaniel

9:23

Game Theory 101 (#77): Signaling Games

William Spaniel

18:14

Game Theory 101 (#78): Separating Equilibrium

William Spaniel

9:34

Game Theory 101 (#79): Pooling Equilibrium

William Spaniel

9:41

Game Theory 101 (#80): Off-the-Path Beliefs

William Spaniel

7:57

Game Theory 101 (#81): The Beer-Quiche Game

William Spaniel

8:26

Game Theory 101 (#82): Semi-Separating Equilibrium/Partially-Pooling Equilibrium

William Spaniel

17:04

Game Theory 101 (#83): Single Raise Poker

William Spaniel

26:12

Game Theory 101: Chain Store Paradox