Strategic Play

Experimental Methods for Business and Economics

 

Robert A. Miller and Vesna Prasnikar

(Stanford University Press forthcoming 2008)

 

We gratefully acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation, NSF #9952280, administered by the Department of Undergraduate Education.

 

This textbook is suitable for courses in strategy and economics. Clicking on the chapter title opens the chapter contents. Clicking on the chapter number opens a page containing the experiments that accompany it. Each experiment can be saved for use in the classroom, and as a template for creating new experiments.

 

FOUNDATIONS

Chapter 1               Experimental Design

Chapter 2               Analyzing Experimental Data   

 

RATIONAL CHOICE

Chapter 3               Investment

Chapter 4               Uncertainty

 

THE EXTENSIVE FORM

Chapter 5               The Extensive Form  

Chapter 6               Perfect Information   

 

THE STRATEGIC FORM

Chapter 7               The Strategic Form    

Chapter 8               Dominance                  

 

NASH EQUILIBRIUM

Chapter 9               Pure Strategies            

Chapter 10             Mixed Strategies         

 

SEQUENTIAL GAMES WITH IMPERFECT INFORMATION  

Chapter 11             Complete Information      

Chapter 12             Incomplete Information   

 

RECURSION

Chapter 13             Finite Horizon   

Chapter 14             Infinite Horizon 

 

BARGAINING

Chapter 15             Bargaining    

Chapter 16             Negotiation  

 

CONTRACTS

Chapter 17             Full Information                 

Chapter 18             Asymmetric Information  

 

AUCTIONS

Chapter 19             Equivalence                   

Chapter 20             Violating Equivalence   

 

TRADING

Chapter 21             Monopoly                                                           

Chapter 22             Market Microstructure  

 

COMPETITIVE EQUILIBRIUM

Chapter 23             Equilibrium and Optimality     

Chapter 24             Information and Uncertainty