Game & Auction Theory Articles

A Crash Course in Game Theory

To Get Good, Go After The Metagame (commonplace)

Auction Mechanisms

Auction Theory
auction types
winner's curse
how to bid
all-pay
how to sell
additional twists
resources

Single-Sided, Single-Unit Auctions (dongmo)

Double Auctions (dongmo)

Combinational Auctions (dongmo)

Board games of the ancient world (smithsonian)

Game Theory: DuckDuckGo search results

Geometric Regret Matching (arxiv)

Bargaining

Nash's Cooperative solution
Variable-threat barganing
Total value decays
Experimental evidence
Impatience
Information manipulation
Multiple parties, multiple issues

sequential, or simultaneous?
common or conflicting interests?
single, or repeated play?
same, or changing opponents?
equal access to information?
fixed rules, or fluid?
enforceable cooperation agreements?
strategies
payoffs
rationality
common knowledge of rules
equilibrium
dynamics & evolutionary games
observation & experiments

Game Structure: Combined Moves

Mechanism Design

price discrimination
principals & agents
cost-plus, fixed-price contracts
evidence
incentives

managerial supervision
insurance provision

incentives: evidence

nonlinear
teams
multiple tasks & outcomes
incentives over time

The Prisoners Dilemma

Sequential-Move Games

Simultaneous-Move Games:
Discrete Strategies
Mixed Strategies
Continuous Strategies

Strategic Moves

Collective-Action Situations

Uncertainty & Imperfect Information
risk management
assymetric information
cheap talk
adverse selection
signaling
screening
labor mkt signaling
2-player equilibria

Voting Systems
rules & procedures
paradoxes
voting systems
vote manipulation
median voter theorem

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