index
Page numbers in boldface indicate pages on which objects are defined.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Z
- Action
- extensive game with imperfect information, Definition 200.1
- extensive game with perfect information, Definition 89.1
- strategic game, 11
- Action-determined beliefs, Definition 232.1
- ADD (Shapley value axiom), 292
- Addition of a superfluous move
- equivalence of extensive games, 206
- Additive coalitional game, Exercise 261.2
- Additivity axiom of Shapley value, 292
- Agent strategic form, 250
- Agree to disagree, 75
- Agreements, set of
- bargaining game, 118
- Nash solution, Definition 300.1
- Air strike, Exercise 36.2
- Allocation
- competitive, 269
- market with transferable payoff, 264
- Alternating offers bargaining, see bargaining game of alternating offers
- Approachable mixed strategy equilibrium, 42
- Armies, Exercise 101.3
- Assessment, 221, Definition 222.1
- consistent, Definition 224.2
- Asymmetric abilities/perceptions, 6
- Asymmetric Nash solution, 309
- Auction, Example 18.1
- first price, Exercise 18.2
- second price, Exercise 18.3
- imperfect information, Example 27.1
- Automaton, see machine
- Axiomatizations of the core, 275
- Axioms
- for knowledge function, 69-70
- for Nash solution, 305-307
- for Shapley value, 292
- Bach or Stravinsky?, Example 15.3
- Bayesian game, Exercise 27.2
- correlated equilibrium, 44, Example 46.1
- interpretation of mixed equilibrium, 40
- mixed extension, Example 34.1
- Nash equilibrium, Example 15.3
- with outside option, Example 110.1
- Backwards induction, 99
- Balanced contributions property for coalitional games, Definition 291.1
- Balanced game/collection of weights, 262
- Balancing counterobjection, see counterobjection
- Bargaining game of alternating offers, 120
- constant cost of delay, Exercise 125.2
- equilibria with delay, Exercise 125.2
- importance of procedure, 127
- more than two players, 130
- multiple equilibrium outcomes, Exercise 125.2, Exercise 128.1
- Nash equilibria, 121
- and Nash solution, 310-311
- opting out, 128
- pie with discrete elements, Exercise 128.1
- properties of subgame perfect equilibria, 125
- risk of breakdown, 129
- relation with Nash solution, Proposition 310.3
- subgame perfect equilibria, 121-127
- characterization, Proposition 122.1
- variant for coalitional game, Exercise 296.1
- variant with one party proposing, Exercise 127.1
- variant with simultaneous proposals, 127
- Bargaining problem (Nash), Definition 300.1
- Bargaining set of coalitional game, Definition 282.1
- and kernel, Lemma 285.1
- Bargaining solution, Definition 301.1, 308
- Nash, Definition 301.2
- Battle of the sexes, see Bach or Stravinsky?
- Bayesian extensive game, Definition 231.1
- perfect Bayesian equilibrium, Definition 232.1
- Bayesian game, Definition 25.1
- common prior belief, 75
- extensive with observable actions, Definition 231.1
- Nash equilibrium, Definition 26.1
- signaling game, 237
- Beer or Quiche, Example 244.2
- Behavioral strategy, Definition 212.1
- completely mixed, 224
- Nash equilibrium, 216
- outcome-equivalence with mixed strategy, 214
- Belief system, 223
- Beliefs
- constraints in extensive game
- common beliefs, 222
- consistency with strategies, 221
- structural consistency, 222, Definition 228.1
- mixed strategies, 43
- rationalizability, 54
- constraints in extensive game
- Best response function, 15
- Best response to belief
- action not strictly dominated, Lemma 60.1
- action not weakly dominated, Exercise 64.2
- Biological example, Example 49.2, 49
- Bondareva-Shapley theorem, Proposition 262.1
- BoS, see Bach or Stravinsky?
- Bounded rationality, 6, 164
- Breakdown in bargaining, 129
- Burning money game, Example 111.1
- Card game, Exercise 217.3
- Centipede game, 106
- Chain-store game, 105
- perturbation, Example 239.1
- Chance moves in extensive game
- imperfect information, 201
- perfect information, 101
- Chess, 6, 100
- Chicken, 30
- Choice rule/function, 178
- monotonic, Definition 186.1
- no veto power, Definition 187.1
- Choice theory, 4
- Choice under uncertainty, 4, Exercise 71.2
- Clarke-Groves game forms, 183
- Coalescing of moves
- equivalence of extensive games, 207
- sequential equilibrium, Example 226.2
- trembling hand perfect equilibrium, Exercise 252.2
- Coalition, Definition 257.1
- Coalitional game
- nontransferable payoff, Definition 268.2
- bargaining set, kernel, 284, 298
- core, Definition 268.3
- exchange economy, 269
- Shapley value, 298
- solutions, see solution
- transferable payoff, Definition 257.1
- balanced, 262
- balanced contributions property, Definition 291.1
- bargaining set, Definition 282.1
- cohesive, Definition 258.1
- convex, Exercise 260.4
- core, Definition 258.2
- cost-sharing, 296
- excess of a coalition, 283
- feasible payoff vector/profile, 258
- imputation, 278
- kernel, Definition 284.1
- nonemptiness of bargaining set and kernel, Corollary 288.3
- nonemptiness of nucleolus, Proposition 288.1
- nonempty core, Proposition 262.1
- nucleolus, Definition 286.1
- objection, see objection, counterobjection
- Shapley value, Definition 291.2
- simple, Exercise 261.1
- stable set, Definition 279.1
- superadditive, 258
- zerosum, Exercise 261.2
- nontransferable payoff, Definition 268.2
- Coalitional vs. noncooperative games, 2, 255
- Cohesive coalitional game, Definition 258.1
- Common beliefs, 222
- Common knowledge, Definition 73.1, Definition 73.2
- Communication, 113
- Comparative statics of risk aversion in Nash bargaining, Proposition 304.1
- Competitive equilibrium
- exchange economy, 269
- and core, 271-274
- existence, 270
- and game theory, 3
- market with transferable payoff, 266
- and core, 265-268
- existence, Exercise 267.2
- exchange economy, 269
- Competitive payoff, 266
- Completely mixed strategy, 224
- Complexity of machine, 165
- Concave function, 7
- Consequences, set of
- coalitional game, Definition 268.2
- implementation theory, 178
- strategic game, 12
- Consistency
- of beliefs with strategies, 221
- of strategy with history, 213
- structural, Definition 228.1
- Consistent assessment, Definition 224.2
- and structural consistency, 228-231
- Constituent game of repeated game, 136
- Constraints on beliefs, 221-222
- Continuous preference relation, 7
- Convergence of core and competitive equilibrium
- exchange economy, Proposition 273.1
- market with transferable payoff, 267
- Convex coalitional game, Exercise 260.4
- core and Shapley value, Exercise 295.5
- Convexity of Nash bargaining problem, Definition 300.1
- Cooperative game, see coalitional game
- Coordinated attack problem, 85
- Coordination game, Example 16.1
- Core
- convergence to competitive equilibrium, 267, Proposition 273.1
- equal treatment in, Lemma 272.2
- exchange economy, 271
- and competitive equilibrium, 271-274
- and generalized stable set, Exercise 280.5
- market with transferable payoff, 264
- and competitive equilibrium, 265-268
- nontransferable payoff game, Definition 268.3
- and stable sets, Proposition 279.2
- transferable payoff game, Definition 258.2
- nonemptiness, Proposition 262.1
- Correlated equilibrium, Definition 45.1
- knowledge, Exercise 81.1
- rationalizability, Lemma 56.2
- Cost-sharing in coalitional game, 296
- Counterobjection in coalitional game
- bargaining set, 281
- kernel, 284
- Nash solution, 302
- nucleolus, 286
- Shapley value, 290
- Cournot duopoly
- rationalizability, Exercise 56.4
- Covariance with positive affine transformations (Nash solution), Exercise 309.1
- Crazy players, 239
- Credible objection in coalitional game, 278
- Cycling phase of machine game, 171
- Deductive interpretation, 5
- Dictatorial choice rule, 181
- Disagreement outcome in Nash solution, Definition 300.1
- Discounting
- bargaining game of alternating offers, 119, 122, Example 125.1
- Nash folk theorem, Proposition 145.2
- perfect folk theorem, Proposition 151.1
- preferences, 137
- repeated game, 139
- structure of subgame perfect equilibria of repeated game, 153-154
- Dominance solvable, Exercise 63.2
- Dominant action, Example 18.3
- Dominant strategy equilibrium of strategic game, Definition 181.1
- Dominated action, see weakly dominated action, strictly dominated action
- Dove, see Hawk-Dove
- DSE (dominant strategy equilibrium), Definition 181.1
- DUM (Shapley value), 292
- Dummy player in coalitional game, Exercise 280.4
- axiom of Shapley value, 292
- Dynamic adjustment process, 52
- Edgeworth box, 270
- Education, Spence's model, Example 237.2
- refinement of equilibria, Example 246.1
- Eductive interpretation, 5
- Efficiency in coalitional game, 290
- Pareto (Nash solution), 305
- Efficient agreement (bargaining), 122, 125
- Electronic mail game, 81-84
- Elimination of dominated actions, see iterated elimination
- Endowment in market, 264
- Enforceable payoff profile/outcome, 143
- Environment (implementation theory), 179
- e-equilibrium, Exercise 108.1
- Equal treatment in core, Lemma 272.2
- Equilibrium, see solution
- Equilibrium, competitive, 266
- Equivalence of extensive games
- coalescing of moves, 207
- framing effects, 209
- inflation-deflation, 205
- interchange of moves, 208
- one-player games, Exercise 208.1
- superfluous moves, 206
- Equivalence of mixed and behavioral strategies, 214
- ESS (evolutionarily stable strategy), 50
- Event, 69
- self-evident, Definition 73.2
- Evolutionarily stable strategy, Definition 49.1
- existence, Exercise 51.1
- Evolutionary equilibrium, 48
- Evolutive interpretation, 5
- Excess of a coalition, 283
- Exchange economy, 269
- core, 271
- Exchange game (Bayesian), Exercise 28.1
- Existence
- evolutionarily stable strategy, Exercise 51.1
- mixed strategy equilibrium, Proposition 33.1, 33
- Nash equilibrium, Proposition 20.3
- sequential equilibrium, Corollary 253.2
- subgame perfect equilibrium, Proposition 99.2
- trembling hand perfect equilibrium, Proposition 249.1, Corollary 253.2
- Exogenous uncertainty in extensive game
- imperfect information, 200
- perfect information, 101
- Extensive game, Definition 200.1
- behavioral strategy, Definition 212.1
- chance moves, 101, 201
- equivalence principles
- addition of superfluous move, 206
- coalescing of moves, 207
- inflation-deflation, 205
- interchange of moves, 208
- exogenous uncertainty, 101, 200
- imperfect information, Definition 200.1
- machine game, Exercise 174.1
- mixed strategy, Definition 212.1
- outcome, 213, 223
- perfect and imperfect recall, Definition 203.3
- perfect Bayesian equilibrium, Definition 232.1
- perfect information, Definition 89.1
- Nash equilibrium, Definition 93.1
- no indifference condition, Exercise 100.2
- outcome, 93
- reduced strategic form, Definition 95.1
- simultaneous moves, 102
- strategic form, Definition 94.1
- strategy, Definition 92.1
- subgame, Definition 97.1
- subgame perfect equilibrium, Definition 97.2
- pure strategy, Definition 203.1
- sequential equilibrium, see sequential equilibrium
- simultaneous moves, 202
- solutions, see solution
- vs. strategic game, 3
- trembling hand perfect equilibrium, Definition 251.1
- Extensive game form with perfect information, 90, 179
- External stability in coalitional game, Definition 279.1
- Feasible payoff profile
- coalitional game, 258
- strategic game, 139
- Fictitious play, 52
- Finite extensive game, 90
- Finite horizon extensive game, 90
- examples, 105
- Finite strategic game, 11
- Finitely repeated game, 155
- Nash equilibrium, 155-157
- Nash folk theorem, Proposition 156.1
- perfect folk theorem, Proposition 160.1
- subgame perfect equilibrium, 157-160
- First mover advantage in bargaining game, 126
- First price auction, Exercise 18.2
- Fixed point theorem, Lemma 20.1
- Folk theorem, see Nash folk theorem, perfect folk theorem
- Forget, players who do so, 204
- Forward induction, 110-114
- Framing effects, 209
- Full dimensionality in repeated game, 151
- Game form
- extensive, 201
- extensive, with perfect information, 90
- Game theory and competitive equilibrium, 3
- Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem, Proposition 181.2
- Groves mechanism, 184
- Guess the average, Exercise 35.1
- rationalizability, Exercise 56.5
- Guessing right, Exercise 36.1
- Hats, puzzle of, 71
- Hawk-Dove, Example 16.3, Example 49.2
- History in extensive game
- imperfect information, Definition 200.1
- perfect information, Definition 89.1
- Homogeneous weighted majority game, Exercise 289.2
- IIA (Nash solution axiom), 306
- Impatience in bargaining game, 126
- Imperfect information
- extensive game, Definition 200.1
- strategic game, 24
- Imperfect information in game models, 199
- Imperfect recall, 203
- Implementable choice rule, Definition 179.1
- Implementation theory, 177-196
- dominant strategy implementation, 180-185
- Nash implementation, 185-191
- and Nash solution, 311
- subgame perfect equilibrium, 191-195
- virtual SPE-implementation, 192
- Imputation, 278
- Increasing function, 7
- Independence of irrelevant alternatives (Nash solution), 306, Exercise 309.1
- Individually rational
- see enforceable, 143
- strict (Nash solution), Exercise 309.2
- Indivisible good, market for
- core, Example 260.1
- Shapley value, Example 294.4
- stable set, Exercise 280.2
- Infinitely repeated game, Definition 137.1
- complexity, 164
- Nash equilibrium, 143-146
- subgame perfect equilibrium, 146-154
- Inflation-deflation principle, 205
- Information
- more is better, Exercise 71.2
- more may hurt, Exercise 28.2, Exercise 48.1
- Information function, Definition 68.1
- partitional, Definition 68.2
- Information partition
- correlated equilibrium, Definition 45.1
- extensive game with imperfect information, Definition 200.1
- Information set, Definition 200.1
- interpretation, 205
- nonordered, Example 223.1, Exercise 229.1
- Initial history, 90
- Interchange of moves
- equivalence of extensive games, 208
- Interchangeable equilibria
- extensive game with perfect information, Exercise 100.2
- strictly competitive game, 23
- Interchangeable players in coalitional game, 292
- Internal stability in coalitional game, Definition 279.1
- Interpretation
- forward induction, 112
- information set, 205
- mixed strategy Nash equilibrium, 37-44
- solutions, 5
- state of the world, 67
- strategic game, 13
- strategy in extensive game, 103
- Introductory phase of machine game, 171
- Investment race, Exercise 35.2
- Irrational players, 239
- Irrelevant alternatives, independence of, 306
- Iterated elimination
- forward induction, 110-114
- and rationalizable actions, Proposition 61.2
- strictly dominated actions, Definition 60.2
- subgame perfect equilibrium, 108
- weakly dominated actions, 62
- and subgame perfect equilibrium, 108
- Judgment of Solomon, see Solomon's predicament
- Kakutani's fixed point theorem, Lemma 20.1
- Kalai-Smorodinsky solution, 310
- Kernel of coalitional game, Definition 284.1
- and bargaining set, Lemma 285.1
- and nucleolus, Lemma 287.1
- Knowledge
- common, Definition 73.1, Definition 73.2
- mutual, 73
- Knowledge and solution concepts, 76-81
- Knowledge function, 69, 70
- Kuhn's theorem, Proposition 99.2
- in game with chance moves, Exercise 102.1
- in game with simultaneous moves, Exercise 103.3
- Leader-follower game, Example 97.3
- Learning, 52
- Lexicographic minimality in nucleolus of coalitional game, Lemma 286.2
- Lexicographic preferences in machine game, 165, 172-174
- Limit of means
- Nash folk theorem, Proposition 144.3
- perfect folk theorem, Proposition 146.2
- preferences, 138
- repeated game, 139
- Location game, Example 18.6
- iterated elimination of dominated actions, Exercise 63.1
- rationalizable actions, Exercise 57.1
- Long- and short-lived players in infinite game, Exercise 148.1
- Machine, 140, 164
- complexity, 165
- Machine game, Definition 165.1
- cycling/introductory phases, 171
- extensive game and complexity, Exercise 174.1
- lexicographic preferences, 165
- structure of equilibria, 168-174
- Majority game, Example 295.3, Exercise 295.4
- bargaining set, Example 282.2
- core, Example 259.1, Example 260.3
- kernel, Example 285.2
- stable set, Example 279.3
- weighted, Exercise 289.2
- nucleolus, Exercise 289.2
- Shapley value, Example 294.1
- Marginal contribution of player in coalitional game, 291
- Market for indivisible good
- core, Example 260.1
- Shapley value, Example 294.4
- stable set, Exercise 280.2
- Market with transferable payoff, 263
- bargaining set, Exercise 283.1
- core, 264
- nonempty, Proposition 264.2
- Markovian machine, 143
- Matching pennies, Example 17.1
- Maxminimizer, Definition 21.2, 209
- Mechanism design, see implementation theory
- Memory, poor (extensive games that model), 204
- Message
- in Beer or Quiche game, Example 244.2
- in signaling game, 237
- Minmax payoff, 143
- Mistakes, 247
- Mixed extension
- strategic game, Definition 32.1
- strictly competitive, 36
- Mixed strategy
- as belief, 43
- extensive game
- imperfect information, Definition 212.1
- perfect information, 93
- naïve interpretation, 37
- outcome equivalence with behavioral strategy, 214
- as pure strategy in extended game, 39
- strategic game, 32
- Mixed strategy equilibrium
- approachable, 42
- and correlated equilibrium, Proposition 45.3
- extensive game, 216
- Harsanyi's model, 41-43
- interpretation, 37-44
- knowledge requirements, Proposition 78.1
- as steady state, 38
- strategic game, Definition 32.3, Definition 44.1
- Monotonic choice rule, Definition 186.1
- Mutation, 49
- Mutual knowledge, 73
- My aunt and I (coalitional game)
- bargaining set, Example 282.3
- generalization, Example 295.3
- kernel, Example 285.3
- Naïve interpretation of mixed strategy, 37
- Nash bargaining
- and bargaining game of alternating offers, 310-311
- comparative statics of risk aversion, Proposition 304.1
- independence of irrelevant alternatives, 306
- Pareto efficiency, 305
- problem, Definition 300.1
- symmetry, Definition 305.1
- Nash equilibrium
- Bayesian game, Definition 26.1
- behavioral strategies, 216
- and correlated equilibrium, Proposition 45.3
- existence for strategic game, Proposition 20.3
- extensive game with perfect information, Definition 93.1
- finitely repeated game, 155-157
- infinitely repeated game, 143-146
- interchangeability, 23
- knowledge requirements, Proposition 77.1
- mixed strategy of extensive game, 216
- mixed strategy of strategic game, Definition 32.3, 43
- strategic game, Definition 14.1
- and maxminimizers, Proposition 22.2
- and trembling hand perfect equilibrium, 248
- Nash folk theorem
- discounting criterion, Proposition 145.2
- finitely repeated game, Proposition 156.1
- limit of means criterion, Proposition 144.3
- Nash implementation, 185-191
- revelation principle, Lemma 185.2
- Nash solution, Definition 301.2
- axiomatic definition, 305-310
- exact implementation, 311
- Nature, moves of, see chance moves
- Negotiation, see bargaining game of alternating offers, Nash bargaining
- Never-best response, Definition 59.1
- No indifference condition, Exercise 100.2
- No veto power, Definition 187.1
- Non-redundancy in Nash bargaining problem, Definition 300.1
- Noncooperative vs. coalitional games, 2, 255
- Nondecreasing function, 7
- Nonempty core
- coalitional game, Proposition 262.1
- market with transferable payoff, Proposition 264.2
- Nonordered information sets, Example 223.1, Exercise 229.1
- Nontransferable payoff coalitional game, Definition 268.2
- Normal form game, see strategic game
- Nucleolus of coalitional game, Definition 286.1
- and kernel, Lemma 287.1
- Objection in coalitional game
- bargaining set, 281
- kernel, 284
- Nash solution, 302
- nucleolus, 285
- Shapley value, 290
- stable set, 278
- One deviation property
- sequential equilibrium, Exercise 227.1
- subgame perfect equilibrium, Lemma 98.2
- bargaining game, Exercise 123.1
- game with chance moves, Exercise 102.1
- game with simultaneous moves, Exercise 103.3
- infinitely repeated game with discounting, Lemma 153.1
- Opting out (bargaining), 128
- Outcome
- extensive game
- imperfect information, 213, 223
- perfect information, 93
- implementation theory, 178
- strategic game, 11
- extensive game
- Outcome-equivalence of mixed and behavioral strategies, 214
- Outcome-equivalent strategies, 94
- Output function of machine, 140, 164
- Outside option
- in bargaining, 128
- in BoS, Example 110.1
- Outside option principle, 129
- Overtaking
- perfect folk theorem, Proposition 149.1
- preferences, 139
- repeated game, 139
- PAR (Nash solution axiom), 305
- Paradoxes in finite horizon games, 105
- Paratroopers, 170
- Pareto efficiency, 7
- axiom of Nash solution, 305
- Pareto frontier of agreement set, 122
- Parliament, coalitional game model, Example 295.3, Exercise 295.4
- Partition of a set, 7
- Partitional information function, Definition 68.2
- Payoff function, 13
- Payoff profile
- repeated game
- discounting, 138
- limit of means, 138
- strategic game, 139
- repeated game
- Perfect Bayesian equilibrium, Definition 232.1
- and sequential equilibrium, Proposition 234.1
- Perfect folk theorem
- discounting criterion, Proposition 151.1
- finitely repeated game, Proposition 160.1
- limit of means criterion, Proposition 146.2
- overtaking criterion, Proposition 149.1
- Perfect information extensive game, Definition 89.1
- strategic form, Definition 94.1
- Perfect recall, Definition 203.3
- Perturbed game
- chain-store, Example 239.1
- mixed and pure strategies, 42
- trembling hand perfect equilibrium, 247
- Phases of equilibrium of machine game, 171
- f, see Shapley value
- Plan of action vs. strategy, 103
- Planner (implementation theory), 177
- Player function in extensive game
- imperfect information, Definition 200.1
- perfect information, Definition 89.1
- Pollute the lake, Exercise 261.3
- Pooling equilibrium in Spence's model, Example 237.2
- eliminated by refinement, Example 246.1
- Pre-trial negotiation, Exercise 246.2
- Preference relation, 7
- repeated game, 137
- Prior belief
- in Bayesian game, Definition 25.1
- and posterior belief, 75
- Prisoner's dilemma, Example 16.2
- equilibria of machine game, Example 166.2, 169, 172
- grim strategy in repeated game, Example 141.1
- complexity, Example 166.1
- infinitely vs. finitely repeated game, 134
- modified in finitely repeated game, 159
- rationalizability, 56
- Probability measure, 7
- Production economy
- core, Exercise 259.3
- core convergence, Exercise 268.1
- nucleolus, Exercise 289.1
- Shapley value, Exercise 295.2
- Production function, 264
- Profile, 7
- Proper equilibrium, 254
- Punishment
- limited length of time, Proposition 146.2
- punishing the punisher, Proposition 149.1
- rewarding players who punish, 150, 159
- trigger strategies, 143
- Pure strategy
- extensive game, Definition 203.1
- strategic game, 32
- Purification of mixed strategy equilibrium, 39
- Puzzle of the hats, 71
- Quasi-concave preference relation, 7, 20
- Rational choice, 4
- Rational, individually, see enforceable, 143
- Rationalizability, 53
- independence vs. correlation in beliefs, 57
- and iterated elimination of strictly dominated actions, Proposition 61.2
- knowledge requirements, Proposition 80.1
- Rationalizable action, Definition 54.1, Definition 55.1
- Recall, 203
- Reduced strategic form, Definition 95.1
- Reduced strategy, 94
- Refinements of sequential equilibrium, 243-246
- Relative probabilities, 254
- Renegotiation, 161
- Repeated game
- constituent game, 136
- finite, 155
- finite vs. infinite, 134
- forms of preference relation, 137-139
- infinite, Definition 137.1
- see also finitely repeated game, infinitely repeated game
- Reputation, 238-243
- Restrictions on beliefs, 243-246
- Revelation principle
- DSE implementation, Lemma 181.4
- Nash implementation, Lemma 185.2
- Reversal of beliefs, Example 236.1
- Risk of breakdown in bargaining, 129
- and Nash solution, Proposition 310.3
- Risk, comparative statics (Nash bargaining), Proposition 304.1
- S see coalition
- S-feasible payoff vector, 258
- Second price auction, Exercise 18.3
- imperfect information, Example 27.1
- Self-evident event, Definition 73.2
- Selten's horse
- sequential equilibria, Example 225.2
- trembling hand perfect equilibria, Example 252.1
- Separating equilibrium, Example 237.2, Example 246.1
- Sequential equilibrium, Definition 225.1
- assessment, Definition 222.1
- belief system, 223
- coalescing of moves, Example 226.2
- existence, Corollary 253.2
- and perfect Bayesian equilibrium, Proposition 234.1
- refinements, 243-246
- restrictions on beliefs, 243-246
- reversal of beliefs, Example 236.1
- and structural consistency, 228-231
- and trembling hand perfect equilibrium, Proposition 251.2
- Sequential rationality, 221, 223, Definition 224.1
- Shapley value, Definition 291.2
- axiomatic characterization, 292
- objections and counterobjections, 289
- Short-lived players in infinite game, Exercise 148.1
- Shouting game in implementation, 188, 189
- Signal function in Bayesian game, Definition 25.1
- Signaling game, 237
- pooling equilibrium, Example 237.2
- eliminated by refinement, Example 246.1
- separating equilibrium, Example 237.2, Example 246.1
- pooling equilibrium, Example 237.2
- Simple coalitional game, Exercise 261.1
- core, Exercise 261.1
- stable sets, Exercise 280.1
- Simultaneous moves in extensive game
- imperfect information, 202
- perfect information, 102
- Solomon's predicament, Example 186.3, Example 190.1, Example 191.2
- Solution
- for coalitional games
- bargaining set, Definition 282.1
- core (nontransferable payoff), Definition 268.3
- core (transferable payoff), Definition 258.2
- general idea, 255
- kernel, Definition 284.1
- Nash solution, Definition 301.2
- nucleolus, Definition 286.1
- Shapley value, Definition 291.2
- stable sets, Definition 279.1
- deductive interpretation, 5
- for extensive games
- perfect Bayesian equilibrium, Definition 232.1
- sequential equilibrium, Definition 225.1
- subgame perfect equilibrium, Definition 97.2
- trembling hand perfect equilibrium, Definition 251.1
- general idea, 2
- implementation theory, 179
- steady state interpretation, 5
- for strategic games
- correlated equilibrium, Definition 45.1
- dominant strategy equilibrium, Definition 181.1
- evolutionary equilibrium, Definition 49.1
- iterated elimination of strictly dominated actions, Definition 60.2
- mixed strategy equilibrium, Definition 32.3
- Nash equilibrium, Definition 14.1
- rationalizability, Definition 54.1
- trembling hand perfect equilibrium, Definition 248.1
- for coalitional games
- SPE, see subgame perfect equilibrium
- Spence's model of education, Example 237.2
- refinement of equilibria, Example 246.1
- Split-the-pie game, Example 120.1
- subgame perfect equilibrium, Example 125.1
- Stable set of coalitional game, Definition 279.1
- and core, Proposition 279.2
- generalized, Exercise 280.5
- Stackelberg game, Example 97.3
- Standard of behavior in coalitional game, 279
- State of machine, 140, 164
- State of the world, 67
- Stationarity of strategies in bargaining game, 126
- Steady state interpretation, 5, 14
- Strategic form
- agent strategic form, 250
- extensive game with perfect information, Definition 94.1
- Strategic game, Definition 11.1
- Bayesian, Definition 25.1
- dominant strategy equilibrium, Definition 181.1
- examples, 15-19
- existence of Nash equilibrium, Proposition 20.3
- vs. extensive game, 3
- form of extensive game, Definition 94.1
- imperfect information, 24
- interpretation, 13
- mixed extension, Definition 32.1
- as reduced strategic form, Definition 95.1
- solutions, see solution
- strictly competitive, Definition 21.1
- symmetric, Exercise 20.4
- tabular representation, 13
- trembling hand perfect equilibrium, Definition 248.1
- Strategic game form, 178
- Strategy
- equilibrium structure in repeated game, 134, 163
- extensive game
- imperfect information, Definition 203.1
- interpretation, 103
- perfect information, Definition 92.1
- perfect information and chance moves, 102
- perfect information and simultaneous moves, 102
- vs. plan of action, 103
- as machine in repeated game, 140
- stationarity in bargaining game, 126
- Strict equilibrium, 50
- Strict individual rationality
- Nash bargaining, Exercise 309.2
- Strict individual rationality (strict enforceability), 143
- Strictly competitive strategic game, Example 17.1, Definition 21.1
- value, 23
- Strictly dominated action, Definition 59.2
- Strictly enforceable payoff profile/outcome, 143
- Structural consistency, 222, Definition 228.1
- and sequential equilibrium, 228-231
- Structure of equilibria of repeated game, 153-154
- complexity, 163
- cycling/introductory phases, 171
- Subgame of extensive game with perfect information, Definition 97.1
- Subgame perfect equilibrium
- extensive game with imperfect information, see sequential equilibrium
- extensive game with perfect information, Definition 97.2
- finitely repeated game, Proposition 157.2, Proposition 160.1
- implementation, 191
- Nash solution, 311
- infinitely repeated game, 146-154
- discounting, Proposition 151.1, Proposition 154.1
- limit of means, Proposition 146.2
- overtaking, Proposition 149.1
- interchangeability, Exercise 100.2
- iterated elimination of weakly dominated actions, 108
- virtual SPE-implementation, 192
- Superadditivity of coalitional game, 258
- Superfluous moves
- equivalence of extensive games, 206
- Support of probability distribution, 32
- SYM (Nash solution axiom), 305
- SYM (Shapley value axiom), 292
- Symmetric bargaining problem, Definition 305.1
- Symmetric game, Exercise 20.4
- evolutionary equilibrium, Exercise 51.1
- Symmetry axiom
- Nash solution, 305
- Shapley value, 292
- Symmetry function, Definition 305.1
- Terminal history in extensive game
- imperfect information, Definition 200.1
- perfect information, Definition 89.1
- Three-player bargaining, 130
- Three-player majority game
- bargaining set, Example 282.2
- core, Example 259.1
- kernel, Example 285.2
- stable set, Example 279.3
- Transferable payoff
- coalitional game, Definition 257.1
- coalitional game without, Definition 268.2
- core, Definition 258.2
- market, 263
- Transition function of machine, 140, 164
- Treasure in the mountains, Example 259.2
- Trembling hand perfect equilibrium, 246-253
- extensive game, Definition 251.1
- existence, Corollary 253.2
- and sequential equilibrium, Proposition 251.2
- and weakly dominated strategy, 252
- strategic game, Definition 248.1
- existence, Proposition 249.1
- and Nash equilibrium, 248
- and weakly dominated strategy, Proposition 248.2
- extensive game, Definition 251.1
- Trigger strategy in repeated game, 143
- Truthful implementation, Definition 179.2
- and DSE-implementation, Lemma 181.4
- and Nash implementation, Lemma 185.2
- via Groves mechanism, Proposition 184.2
- Type of agent in exchange economy, 272
- Types of players, 24, Definition 231.1
- Uncertainty
- in extensive game
- imperfect information, 200
- perfect information, 101
- in model of rational choice, 4, Exercise 71.2
- about others' characteristics, 24
- about others' knowledge, 29
- in extensive game
- Unique best agreements in Nash bargaining problem, Definition 300.1
- Utility function, 4
- see also payoff function, 13
- Value
- coalitional game, 290
- strictly competitive game, 23
- Veto player in coalitional game, Exercise 261.1
- Veto power, Definition 187.1
- Virtual SPE-implementation, 192
- Von Neumann-Morgenstern utility function, 5
- War of attrition, Example 18.4
- Weak separability of preferences in repeated game, Definition 137.1
- Weakly dominant action, Exercise 18.3
- Weakly dominated action, Definition 62.1
- and trembling hand perfect equilibrium, Proposition 248.2
- Weighted majority game, Exercise 289.2
- Shapley value, Example 294.1
- Winning coalition, Exercise 261.1
- Worth of a coalition, Definition 257.1
- Zerosum coalitional game, Exercise 261.2
- weighted majority game, Exercise 289.2
- Zerosum strategic game, 21