Theory / Lab / Tutoring / Exercises Sessions
3 / - / - / -
Instruction & Examination Language
Greek
Available for Erasmus Students
Yes
Course Type
Scientific Expertise
Course Objectives - Contents
- Applications of games in everyday life, sports, economics, business, political science and global politics/international relations
- Terminology and basic concepts of strategy game theory
- Players, moves, strategies, and payoffs
- Simultaneous move games and payoff tables
- Fixed and zero-sum games
- ‘Atomic’ games: coordination, battle of the sexes, chicken and prisoner’s dilemma
- Dominant strategy equilibrium, Nash equilibrium, Schelling equilibrium
- Sequential games and decision trees
- Sub-game perfect Nash equilibrium and credibility of promises and threats
- Game-theoretical analysis of the Cuban missile crisis (1962)
- Examples of games in movies
- Applications of negotiating games in international environmental policy
- Deviations from perfect rationality, social automation, influence science, judgment and body language
Learning Results
The course aims to provide students with the tools of game theory to analyse problems of everyday life and interpersonal relationships; economic and business; and especially global politics and international relations.
