Game Theory category: 252 books
Never Split Tens!
A Biographical Novel of Blackjack Game Theorist Edward O. Thorp PLUS Tips and Techniques to Help You Win
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Renowned probability theorist Edward O. Thorp revolutionized the casino industry by developing card counting systems for the casino game of blackjack. Les Golden, the celebrated blackjack, roulette, and craps columnist for Bluff Europe, Gambling.com, iGaming Business, GamblingOnline, and Jackpots...
Game, Set and Math
Enigmas and Conundrums
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Twelve essays take a playful approach to the subject, exploring how to play poker over the telephone without the possibility of cheating, how to distinguish plausible fallacies from unbelievable facts, and how to cope mathematically with contorted worms, drunken tennis players, and snakes that eat...
Subgame Consistent Economic Optimization
An Advanced Cooperative Dynamic Game Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Various imperfections in existing market systems prevent the free market from serving as a truly efficient allocation mechanism, but optimization of economic activities provides an effective remedial measure. Cooperative optimization claims that socially optimal and individually rational solutions...
Risk and Reward
The Science of Casino Blackjack
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
For decades, casino gaming has been steadily increasing in popularity worldwide. Blackjack is among the most popular of the casino table games, one where astute choices of playing strategy can create an advantage for the player.
RISK AND REWARD analyzes the game in depth, pinpointing not just...
by Valeri Obukhovskii, Pietro Zecca, Nguyen Van Loi
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book offers a self-contained introduction to the theory of guiding functions methods, which can be used to study the existence of periodic solutions and their bifurcations in ordinary differential equations, differential inclusions and in control theory. It starts with the basic concepts of nonlinear...
by Jakša Cvitanic, Jianfeng Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
In recent years there has been a significant increase of interest in continuous-time Principal-Agent models, or contract theory, and their applications. Continuous-time models provide a powerful and elegant framework for solving stochastic optimization problems of finding the optimal contracts between...
by Wei-Bin Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2006
This book is a unique blend of difference equations theory and its exciting applications to economics. It deals with not only theory of linear (and linearized) difference equations, but also nonlinear dynamical systems which have been widely applied to economic analysis in recent years. It studies...
Fractional Calculus and Fractional Processes with Applications to Financial Economics
Theory and Application
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Fractional Calculus and Fractional Processes with Applications to Financial Economics presents the theory and application of fractional calculus and fractional processes to financial data. Fractional calculus dates back to 1695 when Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz first suggested the possibility of fractional...
Groups and Markets
General Equilibrium with Multi-member Households
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2017
This monograph studies multi-member households or, more generally, socio-economic groups from a purely theoretical perspective and within a general equilibrium framework, in contrast to a sizeable empirical literature. The approach is based on the belief that households, their composition, decisions...
Robust Mechanism Design
The Role of Private Information and Higher Order Beliefs
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Foreword by Eric Maskin (Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2007)
This volume brings together the collected contributions on the theme of robust mechanism design and robust implementation that Dirk Bergemann and Stephen Morris have been working on for the past decade. The collection is preceded by...
Sunspots and Non-Linear Dynamics
Essays in Honor of Jean-Michel Grandmont
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2016
This book presents the state-of-the-art in non-linear dynamics and sunspots. These two topics have been the core of an international conference on instability and public policies in a globalized world, organized at Aix-Marseille School of Economics and GREQAM in honor of Jean-Michel Grandmont. He...
Equilibrium Models in Economics
Purposes and Critical Limitations
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The concept of equilibrium is fundamental to economic theory, according to which, it exists when supply and demand are balanced. Equilibrium Models in Economics critically examines the major problematic assumptions employed to build equilibrium models. It gives particular attention to the assumptions...
Measurement and Probability
A Probabilistic Theory of Measurement with Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Measurement plays a fundamental role both in physical and behavioral sciences, as well as in engineering and technology: it is the link between abstract models and empirical reality and is a privileged method of gathering information from the real world.
Is it possible to develop a single theory...
by Vincent Traag
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
A persistent problem when finding communities in large complex networks is the so-called resolution limit. This thesis addresses this issue meticulously, and introduces the important notion of resolution-limit-free. Remarkably, only few methods possess this desirable property, and this thesis puts...