Help me learn new things! – Game Theory
Aaron Carroll March 31, 2016
This post is part of a series in which I’m dedicating a month to learning about twelve new things this year. The full schedule can
This post is part of a series in which I’m dedicating a month to learning about twelve new things this year. The full schedule can
I originally posted the following on August 13, 2009, but if you are unfamiliar with it, have some fun this weekend thinking about it. (That
A long time ago I blogged about the notion of common knowledge in game theory. Yesterday, over at the Cheap Talk blog, Jeff Ely put
Taking on faith that John Chait’s interpretation of the reporting is accurate, it seems that Republicans have announced a plan to filibuster the first vote
This past week, the Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony on whether to overrule two recent Supreme Court decisions that made it much harder for plaintiffs
I learned of Ben Polak through his course Econ 159, available online through Open Yale Courses (see my review). In addition to being a superb
My Regular Libertarian Foil ™ (RLF – an acquaintance who often provokes me with unorthodox points of view) recently posed the following question: Why can’t
There’s a reason I’ve posted a lot on game theory of late: I was taking a course on the topic, continuing my education by podcast.
Last week I posed the war of attrition game, and earlier this week I analyzed it. Building on that analysis, in this post I provide
Last week I posed the following problem from game theory called “war of attrition.” It is a simple yet famous game that explains some strange
This is another game theory problem called “war of attrition”: You and a competitor will battle in rounds for a prize worth $5. Each round
Last week I posed a game called “Hierarchy of Hungry Cannibals.” The game is easy to grasp but takes too many words to state to
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