-theoretic approach to develop a theory of oligopoly pricing. Vives begins by relating classic contributions to the field--including those …The "oligopoly problem"--the question of how prices are formed when the market contains only a few competitors--is one … of Cournot, Bertrand, Edgeworth, Chamberlin, and Robinson--to modern game theory. In his discussion of basic game …

dynamics. The goal is to develop a process-oriented theory of money and financial institutions that reconciles micro- and … macroeconomics, using as a prime tool the theory of games in strategic and extensive form. The approach involves a search for minimal …

dynamics. The goal is to develop a process-oriented theory of money and financial institutions that reconciles micro- and … macroeconomics, using as a prime tool the theory of games in strategic and extensive form. The approach involves a search for minimal …

Corporate managers who face both strategic uncertainty and market uncertainty confront a classic trade-off between …, "option games," by which the decision-making approaches of real options and game theory can be combined. The authors first … discuss prerequisite concepts and tools from basic game theory, industrial organization, and real options analysis, bringing …

theory, control theory, and econometrics. Chapters 1-7 discuss such topics as the important contributions of Francis Galton …