Professor Frank C.
Zagare
Department of Political
Science
University at
Courses Handouts Homework Software Links
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Courses:
PSC 393
Game Theory and Politics
PSC 533 Formal Political
Theory
Handouts:
The Battle of
the Bismarck Sea
The Rochester School: The
Origins of Positive Political Theory
Nationalization
of the Suez Canal
A
Game-Theoretic Analysis of the Vietnam Negotiations
A
Game-Theoretic Evaluation of the Cease-Fire Alert Decision of 1973
Game
Theory and the Cuban Missile Crisis
D. Marc Kilgour, Review of
Theory of Moves
Itzhak Gilboa, Review of Theory
of Moves
Homework Assignments:
PSC 393 Homework
Assignment # 1
PSC 393 Homework
Assignment # 2
PSC 393 Homework
Assignment # 3
PSC 393 Homework
Assignment # 4
Extensive
Form of Asymmetric Escalation Game
Software:
Material on John Nash:
Conversation
with Reinhard Selten
(requires RealPlayer)
Robert Aumann’s and
Thomas Schelling’s Nobel Prize Award, 2005:
Game Theory on
the Internet: Some Places To Start:
Name: Game Theory.Net
This is a comprehensive site that has material for both the beginning and the advanced student of game theory. It is perhaps the best such site on the internet. The links for educators include teaching materials, lecture notes, books and articles; and for students there is a dictionary of terms, selected applications, and course reviews. There are also links to music and movies that make use of game-theoretic concepts.
Name: Game Theory Website v2.0
This site, which is designed for undergraduates, provides an
introduction to evolutionary game theory. Although primarily of interest to
those with an interest in animal behavior, it provides a fascinating exposition
of the Hawk vs. Dove Game that may be of interest to some students of
interstate conflict
Name: Gambit
Gambit is a software program that can be used to construct and solve finite extensive- and strategic-form games. It can be downloaded from this website. Tutorials for using the program are also available here.
Name: David Levine’s Economic and Game Theory
Contains a general introduction to the modern theory of games with interesting examples, suggestions for further reading and reviews of a number of game theory texts.
Name: Al Roth's Game Theory, Experimental Economics, and Market Design Page
Large archive with notes, papers, and links to other sites using game theory, experimental economics. Maintained by Al Roth.
Name: Game Theory and Information
Archive with working papers on current game-theoretic and economics research.
Name: Ariel Rubinstein’s Website
Free downloads of Rubinstein’s books, including “Bargaining and Markets” and “Modeling Bounded Rationality.”
Name: BenPolak’s Online Course at Yale
Game Theory as taught by a Yale economist.