Game Theory and Social Behavior

Game theory is the formal toolkit for analyzing situations in which payoffs depend not only on your actions (say, which TV series you watch), but also that of others (whether your friends are watching the same show)

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$1,980

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Pace

Instructor-led

Subject

Social Sciences

Course Language

English

Video transcript

English

Difficulty

Intermediate

Platform

Extension School, Harvard Division of Continuing Education

Topics

Economics

Associated Schools

Harvard Extension School

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Course description

This course teaches students to solve games like these, and more, using tools like Nash equilibrium, subgame perfection, Bayesian Nash equilibrium, and the one-shot deviation principle.

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