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The preface emphasizes open access availability and an unusually large set of exercises, each supported with complete and detailed solutions. Coverage begins with ordinal-payoff frameworks and moves through strategic-form ordinal games, dominance concepts, auction examples, pivotal mechanisms, iterative deletion procedures, Nash equilibrium, and proofs, with further expansion in the advanced volume.",".  \n.  \n.  \nGAME THEORY. 2nd Edition  \nCopyright 􀀍c 2015, 2018 Giacomo Bonanno, all rights reserved  \nYou are free to redistribute this book in pdf format. If you make use of any part of this book you must give appropriate credit to the author. You may not remix, transform, or build upon the material without permission from the author. You may not use the material for commercial purposes.  \nThis book is also available in print in two volumes:  \nVolume 1: Basic Concepts ISBN-13: 978-1983604638 ISBN-10: 1983604631 Volume 2: Advanced Topics ISBN-13: 978-1985862517 ISBN-10: 1985862514 CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform  \nFor details see: [http://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/bonanno/GT_Book.html](http://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/bonanno/GT_Book.html)  \nGiacomo Bonanno is Professor of Economics at the  \nUniversity of California, Davis [http://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/bonanno/](http://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/bonanno/)  \nPreface to the first edition, 2015  \nAfter teaching game theory (at both the undergraduate and graduate level) at the University of California, Davis for 25 years, I decided to organize all my teaching material in a textbook. There are many excellent textbooks in game theory and there is hardly any need for a new one. However, there are two distinguishing features of this textbook: (1) it is open access and thus free, 1 and (2) it contains an unusually large number of exercises with complete and detailed answers.  \nI tried to write the book in such a way that it would be accessible to anybody with minimum knowledge of mathematics (high-school level algebra and some elementary notions of probability) and no prior knowledge of game theory. However, the book is intended to be rigorous and it includes several proofs. I believe it is appropriate for an advanced undergraduate class in game theory and also for a first-year graduate-level class.  \nI expect that there will be some typos and (hopefully minor) mistakes. If you come across any typos or mistakes, I would be grateful if you could inform me: I can be reached [at gfbonanno@ucdavis.edu. I will maintain an updated version of](at gfbonanno@ucdavis.edu. I will maintain an updated version of) the book on my webpage at  \n[http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/bonanno/](http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/bonanno/)  \nI also intend to add, some time in the future, a further collection of exercises and exam questions with detailed answers. Details will appear on my web page.  \nI am very grateful to Elise Tidrick for meticulously going through each chapter of the book and for suggesting numerous improvements. Her insightful and constructive comments have considerably enhanced this book.  \nI would also like to thank Nicholas Bowden, Lester Lusher, Burkhard Schipper, Matthieu Stigler, Sukjoon Lee, Minfei Xu and Pedro Paulo Funari for pointing out typos.  \n1There may be several other free textbooks on game theory available. The only one I am aware of is the excellent book by Ariel Rubinstein and Martin Osborne, MIT Press, 1994, which can be downloaded for free from Ariel Rubinstein's web page: [http://arielrubinstein.tau.ac.il](http://arielrubinstein.tau.ac.il. In my experience this book)[. In my experience this book](http://arielrubinstein.tau.ac.il. In my experience this book)[ ](http://arielrubinstein.tau.ac.il. In my experience this book)[is too advanced for an undergraduate class in game theory](is too advanced for an undergraduate class in game theory).  \nPreface to the second edition, 2018  \nThis second edition introduces  \n􀀅 substantial reformatting (having translated into LATEX the previous file written in Microsoft Word),  \n􀀅 the addition of 15 new exercises (bringing the total to 180),  \n􀀅 improved exposition, with additional text and examples, and enhanced topics,  \n􀀅 the availability of a printed version of the book, split into two volumes (the first covering the basic concepts and the second dealing with advanced topics) .  \nI am indeb","cbCaigrzZlSOsd4q","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigrzZlSOsd4q","pdf",22931403,3,1,592,"English","en",105,"# 1 Introduction\n# 2 Ordinal Games in Strategic Form\n## 2.1 Game frames and games\n## 2.2 Strict and weak dominance\n## 2.3 Second-price auction\n## 2.4 The pivotal mechanism\n## 2.5 Iterated deletion procedures\n## 2.6 Nash equilibrium\n## 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