Game Theory Courses and Certifications

Games People Play: Game Theory in Life, Business, and Beyond

104 ratings at The Great Courses Plus

Learn how to apply the precepts of game theory to help you make better decisions at work, home, or anywhere with this highly useful course taught by an award-winning professor.

• The Great Courses Plus
• 12 hours 17 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Understanding Economics: Game Theory

10 ratings at The Great Courses Plus

Explore strategic decision-making in business and life through game theory principles. Learn fundamental concepts, best strategies, and real-world applications from an award-winning professor.

• The Great Courses Plus
• 6 hours 1 minute
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Mixed Strategies in Game Theory - Applications in Sports, Dating, and Taxation

Explore mixed strategies in game theory through real-world examples like sports, dating, and taxes. Learn three interpretations and their implications for decision-making and policy applications.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 14 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Backward Induction: Chess, Strategies, and Credible Threats in Game Theory - Lecture 15

Explore game theory concepts like Zermelo's theorem, perfect information, and Nash equilibria in sequential games. Learn about backward induction and its implications for strategic decision-making.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 13 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Repeated Games: Cheating, Punishment, and Outsourcing - Game Theory Lecture 22

Explores game theory in repeated interactions, focusing on strategies for maintaining cooperation, punishment mechanisms, and applications to business relationships and moral hazard problems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 16 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Evolutionary Stability: Cooperation, Mutation, and Equilibrium in Game Theory - Lecture 11

Explore evolutionary stability in game theory, examining cooperation, mutation, and equilibrium concepts. Learn how biological strategies relate to economic principles like Nash equilibrium and domination.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 12 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Nash Equilibrium - Location, Segregation and Randomization in Game Theory

Explore game theory concepts like Nash equilibrium, segregation, and mixed strategies through candidate-voter models, Schelling's location game, and rock-paper-scissors, revealing how individual choices impact societal outcomes.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 14 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Subgame Perfect Equilibrium - Wars of Attrition in Game Theory - Lecture 20

Explore game theory's "wars of attrition" in competitive scenarios. Analyze long, costly conflicts using rational strategies, equilibria, and probabilities. Gain insights into trench warfare, strikes, and business rivalries.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 16 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Imperfect Information: Information Sets and Sub-game Perfection in Game Theory - Lecture 18

Explore game theory concepts like information sets, imperfect information games, and subgame perfection. Learn to analyze complex strategic interactions and refine equilibrium notions in sequential games.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 16 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Backward Induction - Reputation and Duels in Game Theory - Lecture 16

Explore game theory concepts like reputation-building, chain-store paradox, and dueling. Learn to apply dominance and backward induction in strategic decision-making and pre-emption games.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 16 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Evolutionary Game Theory: Fighting and Contests - Lecture 33

Explore how game theory applies to evolution and behavior, analyzing encounters between organisms as mathematical games to infer fitness payoffs and strategy proportions in populations.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

NPTEL;  IIT Guwahati

Game Theory and Economics

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

• YouTube
• 1 day 16 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Video

NPTEL;  IIT Kanpur

Strategy: An Introduction to Game Theory

Comprehensive introduction to game theory, covering key concepts, strategies, and applications in economics, politics, and decision-making through diverse examples and mathematical models.

• YouTube
• 21 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Wrath of Math

Finding the Optimal Strategy in a Three-Player Integer Game - Game Theory Analysis

Explore game theory through a fascinating three-player integer game, discovering Nash equilibrium concepts and optimal strategies for winning with the smallest unique positive number.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Complexity Explorer

Game Theory Tutorial - Static Games

Master strategic decision-making through Nash equilibrium, dominant strategies, mixed strategies, and Bayesian games with real-world applications in cybersecurity and commons dilemmas.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 47 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video