This is the first volume of the Handbook of Game Theory with Economic Applications, to be followed by two additional volumes. Game Theory has developed greatly in the last decade, and today it is an essential tool in much of economic theory. The three volumes will cover the fundamental theoretical aspects, a wide range of applications to economics, several chapters on applications to political science, and individual chapters on relations with other disciplines.The topics covered in the present volume include chess-playing computers, an introduction to the non-cooperative theory, repeated games, bargaining theory, auctions, location, entry deterrence, patents, the cooperative theory and its applications, and the relation between Game Theory and ethics.For more information on the Handbooks in Economics series, please see our home page on http: //www.elsevier.nl/locate/hes Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

The Game of chess
Games in extensive and strategic forms
Games with perfect information
Repeated games with complete information
Repeated games of incomplete information: Zero-sum
Repeated games of incomplete information: Non-zero-sum
Non-cooperative models of bargaining
Strategic analysis of auctions
Location
Strategic models of entry deterrence
Patent licensing
The core and balancedness
Axiomatizations of the core
The core in perfectly competitive economies
The core in imperfectly competitive economies
Two-sided matching
Von Neumann - Morgenstern stable sets
The bargaining set, kernel and nucleolus: A survey
Game and decision theoretic models in ethics

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