Basic concepts: games, strategies, and equilibrium

1. Why game theory might be useful (notes)
   
   
1.  Strategic interaction among firms
   
   
2.  Contracts
   
   
3.  Actions of individuals in organizations
   
   
2. Important terms and concepts
   
   
3. Decision-making under uncertainty: the expected-utility approach
   
   
4. Game theory: an overview
   
   
1.  Structure of a game
   
   
2.  Equilibrium concepts
   
   
1.   Dominant-strategy equilibrium
   
   
2.   Nash equilibrium
   
   
3.   Subgame perfect Nash equilibrium
   
   
3.  Extensive-form and strategic-form ("normal-form") representations
   
   
5. Repeated games (notes)
   
   
6. Games of incomplete information (Bayesian games) (notes)
   
   
1.  Static 
   
   
2.  Dynamic