Ian Ball
Game Theory
Game Theory — twenty-five lectures from MIT, Fall 2025.Economic Applications of Game Theory. Twenty-five lectures from MIT’s Fall 2025 course: equilibrium, bargaining, repeated games, Bayesian games, auctions and signaling.
Lectures
Game Theory · 25 lectures
1: Introduction to Individual Decision-Making
2: Representation of Games
3: Dominance
4: Rationalizability
5: Nash Equilibrium
6: Imperfect Competition
7: Zero-Sum Games
8: Backward Induction
9: Negotiation
10: Subgame-Perfect Nash Equilibrium
11: One-Shot Deviation Principle and Bargaining
12: Finitely Repeated Games
13: Infinitely Repeated Games
14: Folk Theorem
15: Implicit Cartels
16: Bayesian Games
17: Bayesian Nash Equilibrium: Applications
18: Auctions
19: Revenue Equivalence
20: Ad Auctions
21: Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium
22: Signaling
23: Bargaining with Incomplete Information
24: Cheap Talk
25: Common Knowledge