1. Definition of Game Theory and Rational Choice
2. Interacting Decision Makers
3. Strategic Games : Examples
4. Matching Pennies, Stag Hunt and Nash Equilibrium
5. Examples of Nash Equilibrium
6. Altruism and Prisoner's Dilemma
7. Variants Stag Hunt Game, Hawk Dove and Coordination Game
8. Public Good Provision, Strict Nash Equilibrium
9. Best Response Functions
10. Strictly and Weekly Dominated Action
11. Application of Week Domination: Voting
12. Symmetric Games and Symmetric Equilibrium
13. Cournot Model of Oligopoly
14. Different Aspects of Cornot Model
15. Further Aspects of Cournot Model
16. Cournot & Bertrand Models
17. Different Aspects of Bertrand Model
18. Electoral Competition 1
19. Different Aspects of Hotelling Model
20. Hotteling Model: Concluding Remarks
21. War of Attrition
22. Second Price Sealed Bid
23. Further Aspects of Second Price Auction
24. First Price Auction
25. All Pay Auction, Multi Unit Auction
26. Accident Laws
27. Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibrium: Introduction
28. Mixed Strategy, Mixed Strategy Equilibrium
29. Mixed Strategy Equilibrium: Concept and Examples
30. Characterisation of Mixed Strategy Equilibrium
31. Dominated Actions and Iterated Elimination
32. Rationalisability and Beliefs
33. Extensive Games: Introduction
34. Strategy and Equilibrium
35. Nash Equilibrium and Its Problems
36. Subgame Perfect Nash Equilibrium
37. Backward Induction
38. Backward Induction: Exercises
39. Ultimatum Game
40. Stackelberg Duopoly Model

The course is intended for students and teachers of institutions which offer undergraduate engineering programmes.

The aim of the course is to provide an introduction to the study of game theory which has found wide applications in economics, political science, sociology, engineering apart from disciplines like mathematics and biology.

The course would introduce to the fundamental tools of game theory, a few equilibrium concepts, apart from numerous exercises and applications.

Knowledge of game theory would help students to understand and analyse real life situations such as market behaviour or voting in elections, apart from equipping them with analytical concepts which might be useful should they decide to pursue social sciences, engineering, sciences or managerial higher studies.

This is an interdisciplinary course, hence not only social sciences but science and engineering departments of different universities can benefit from it.

The six modules of the course are as follows:
I. Introduction to Game Theory
II. Strategic Games and Nash Equilibrium
III. Illustrations of Nash Equilibrium
IV. Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibrium
V. Extensive Games and Nash Equilibrium
VI. Illustrations of Extensive Games and Nash Equilibrium