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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 2436yesCoursera

The fees for the course Welcome to Game Theory is -

HeadAmount in INR
Certificate FeesRs. 2,436

 


The Syllabus

Videos
  • Course Preview
  • What is Game Theory?
  • Modelling Social Problems as a "Game"
  • In Search for the Governing Principle
  • Concerns About a Mathematical Theory of Human Behavior
  • Let's Play a Game
  • Card Game Tutorial (No Audio)
  • John Nash Discovered the Governing Principle
  • Nash Equilibrium
  • Traffic Game in Reality
  • Location Game
  • Policies of Two Parties
Readings
  • Course Description
  • Syllabus
  • Card Game Challenge Instruction
  • (Supplementary Reading Material) Convergence to Nash Equilibrium in the Traffic Game
  • About Optional Challenge Problems
  • Supplemental explanation for Question 1, 2 and 3
Assignments
  • Practice Quiz 1.1
  • Practice Quiz 1.2
  • Practice Quiz 1.3
  • Graded Quiz 1
  • Module 1 Optional Challenge Problems

Videos
  • Nash Equilibrium and the Prisoner’s Dilemma
  • Coordination Game and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
  • Market Competition
  • Why Do People Come to Play Nash Equilibrium? Part I
  • Why Do People Come to Play Nash Equilibrium? Part II
  • Why Do People Come to Play Nash Equilibrium? Part III
  • Stylized Facts and Nash Equilibrium
  • Make Yourself Unpredictable: Mixed Strategy Equilibrium
  • Sports Games and Game Theory
  • Nash Equilibrium Exists in All Games
Reading
  • About Optional Challenge Problems
Assignments
  • Practice Quiz 2.1
  • Practice Quiz 2.2
  • Practice Quiz 2.3
  • Graded Quiz 2
  • Module 2 Optional Challenge Problems

Videos
  • Digression: The Card Game Revisited
  • Digression: How You Played the Card Game and Addressing the Concerns about Game Theory
  • “Payoffs” in a Game: What Exactly Are Those Numbers?
  • What Does it Mean That a Player is Rational?
  • Domination: Strategies That Are “Obviously Good or Bad”
  • Common Knowledge of Rationality
  • Low Rationality: What Happens if Players Are Not Very Smart?
  • Game Theory Under Zero-Intelligence: Biological Evolution
  • Fig Wasps Play a Nash Equilibrium
Readings
  • Aggregated Result of the Card Game Challenge
  • About Optional Challenge Problems
  • Supplemental explanation for Question 2, 3 and 4
Assignments
  • Practice Quiz 3.1
  • Practice Quiz 3.2
  • Practice Quiz 3.3
  • Graded Quiz 3
  • Module 3 Optional Challenge Problems

Videos
  • Group Rationality and The Rationality of Individuals
  • Why is Group Rationality Different From Rationality of Individuals?
  • Group Rationality vs. Rationality of Individuals in Biological Evolution
  • Group Rationality vs. Rationality of Individuals in Social Thought
  • How to Enforce Socially Desirable Outcomes
  • Cooperation of gas Stations in Long-Term Relationship Part I: Need For Cooperation
  • Cooperation of Gas Stations in Long-Term Relationship Part II: Mechanism of Cooperation
  • Reputation and Brand Name
  • Cooperation in Loosely Knit Organization
  • Summary of the Course
  • Final Message from the Instructor
Readings
  • (Supplementary Reading Material) Why People Discount Future Payoff ?
  • About Optional Challenge Problems
Assignments
  • Practice Quiz 4.1
  • Practice Quiz 4.2
  • Practice Quiz 4.3
  • Graded Quiz 4
  • Module 4 Optional Challenge Problems

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