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Benjamin Polak Professor of Economics and Management Yale

Benjamin Polak

Professor of Economics and Management
Yale

Courses

  1. Game Theory Course

    Game Theory

    Yale / Political Science
    Benjamin Polak

Lectures

  1. Repeated Games: Cooperation vs the End Game Lecture
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    Repeated Games: Cooperation vs the End Game

    Yale / Political Science
    Benjamin Polak
  2. Best Responses in Soccer and Business Partnerships Lecture
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    Best Responses in Soccer and Business Partnerships

    Yale / Political Science
    Benjamin Polak
  3. Asymmetric Information: Auctions and the Winner's Curse Lecture
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    Asymmetric Information: Auctions and the Winner's Curse

    Yale / Political Science
    Benjamin Polak
  4. Asymmetric Information: Silence, Signaling and Suffering Education Lecture
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    Asymmetric Information: Silence, Signaling and Suffering Education

    Yale / Political Science
    Benjamin Polak
  5. Backward Induction: Chess, Strategies, and Credible Threats Lecture
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    Backward Induction: Chess, Strategies, and Credible Threats

    Yale / Political Science
    Benjamin Polak
  6. Backward Induction: Commitment, Spies, and First-Mover Advantages Lecture
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    Backward Induction: Commitment, Spies, and First-Mover Advantages

    Yale / Political Science
    Benjamin Polak
  7. Backward Induction: Reputation and Duels Lecture
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    Backward Induction: Reputation and Duels

    Yale / Political Science
    Benjamin Polak
  8. Backward Induction: Ultimatums and Bargaining Lecture
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    Backward Induction: Ultimatums and Bargaining

    Yale / Political Science
    Benjamin Polak
  9. Nash Equilibrium: Dating and Cournot Lecture
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    Nash Equilibrium: Dating and Cournot

    Yale / Political Science
    Benjamin Polak
  10. Nash Equilibrium: Shopping, Standing and Voting on a Line Lecture
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    Nash Equilibrium: Shopping, Standing and Voting on a Line

    Yale / Political Science
    Benjamin Polak
  11. Nash Equilibrium: Location, Segregation and Randomization Lecture
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    Nash Equilibrium: Location, Segregation and Randomization

    Yale / Political Science
    Benjamin Polak
  12. Mixed Strategies in Theory and Tennis Lecture
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    Mixed Strategies in Theory and Tennis

    Yale / Political Science
    Benjamin Polak
  13. Mixed Strategies in Baseball, Dating and Paying Your Taxes Lecture
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    Mixed Strategies in Baseball, Dating and Paying Your Taxes

    Yale / Political Science
    Benjamin Polak
  14. Evolutionary Stability: Cooperation, Mutation, and Equilibrium Lecture
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    Evolutionary Stability: Cooperation, Mutation, and Equilibrium

    Yale / Political Science
    Benjamin Polak
  15. Evolutionary Stability: Social Convention, Aggression, and Cycles Lecture
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    Evolutionary Stability: Social Convention, Aggression, and Cycles

    Yale / Political Science
    Benjamin Polak
  16. Sequential Games: Moral Hazard, Incentives, and Hungry Lions Lecture
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    Sequential Games: Moral Hazard, Incentives, and Hungry Lions

    Yale / Political Science
    Benjamin Polak
  17. Imperfect Information: Information Sets and Sub-Game Perfection Lecture
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    Imperfect Information: Information Sets and Sub-Game Perfection

    Yale / Political Science
    Benjamin Polak
  18. Subgame Perfect Equilibrium: Matchmaking and Strategic Investments Lecture
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    Subgame Perfect Equilibrium: Matchmaking and Strategic Investments

    Yale / Political Science
    Benjamin Polak
  19. Subgame Perfect Equilibrium: Wars of Attrition Lecture
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    Subgame Perfect Equilibrium: Wars of Attrition

    Yale / Political Science
    Benjamin Polak
  20. Repeated Games: Cheating, Punishment, and Outsourcing Lecture
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    Repeated Games: Cheating, Punishment, and Outsourcing

    Yale / Political Science
    Benjamin Polak
  21. Nash Equilibrium Lecture
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    Nash Equilibrium

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    Benjamin Polak
  22. Introduction to Game Theory Lecture
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    Introduction to Game Theory

    Yale / Political Science
    Benjamin Polak
  23. Putting Yourselves into Other People's Shoes Lecture
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    Putting Yourselves into Other People's Shoes

    Yale / Political Science
    Benjamin Polak
  24. Iterative Deletion and the Median-Voter Theorem Lecture
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    Iterative Deletion and the Median-Voter Theorem

    Yale / Political Science
    Benjamin Polak

Related Lectures

  1. Plato's Republic I-II Lecture

    Plato's Republic I-II

    Yale / Political Science
    Steven B. Smith
  2. The 2008 election Lecture

    The 2008 election

    Stanford / Political Science
    Martin Lewis
  3. Constitutional Government: Locke, Second Treatise (13-19) Lecture

    Constitutional Government: Locke, Second Treatise (13-19)

    Yale / Political Science
    Steven B. Smith
  4. Sequential Games: Moral Hazard, Incentives, and Hungry Lions Lecture

    Sequential Games: Moral Hazard, Incentives, and Hungry Lions

    Yale / Political Science
    Benjamin Polak