| Managerial Economics and Business Strategy, 4/e Michael Baye,
Indiana University - Bloomington
Game Theory: Inside Oligopoly
Chapter OutlineHeadline: Airline Seeks Government Regulation of Carry-on Baggage - Introduction
- Overview of Games and Strategic Thinking
- Simultaneous-Move, One-Shot Games
- Theory
- Applications of One-Shot Games
- Pricing Decisions
- Advertising and Quality Decisions
- Coordination Decisions
- Monitoring Employees
- Nash Bargaining
- Infinitely Repeated Games
- Theory
- Review of Present Value
- Supporting Collusion with Trigger Strategies
- Factors Affecting Collusion in Pricing Games
- Number of Firms
- Firm Size
- History of the Market
- Punishment Mechanisms
- An Application of Infinitely Repeated Games to Product Quality
- Finitely Repeated Games
- Games with an Uncertain Final Period
- Repeated Games with a Known Final Period: The End-of-Period Problem
- Applications of the End-of-Period Problem
- Resignations and Quits
- The "Snake-Oil" Salesman
- Multistage Games
- Theory
- Applications of Multistage Games
- The Entry Game
- Innovation
- Sequential Bargaining
- Answering the Headline
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Conceptual and Computational Questions
- Problems and Applications
- Selected Readings
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