Game Theory for Business: A Simple Introduction offers an accessible guide to the central ideas and methods of business game theory, with over 35 diagrams to support the analysis.Understand a business's role, goals and incentives. Examine adverse selection, moral hazard, and a bait and switch strategy, see how a firm may secure long-run gains, and learn what the show business industry can teach other businesses.Evaluate duopoly price competition, prospects for collusion, an...

Accounting and Finance Formulas: A Simple Introduction includes over 75 formulas in the field of accounting and finance, alongside relevant definitions and explanations. The formulas cover the fields of financial accounting, management accounting and financial management.

Game Theory: A Simple Introduction offers an accessible and enjoyable guide to the basic principles and extensive applications of game theory.Understand a game matrix, the prisoners' dilemma, dominant and mixed strategies, zero-sum games, Pareto efficiency, the Nash equilibrium, and the power of asymmetric information.Calculate payoffs and outcomes in games involving characters such as Jack and Jill, or friend and stranger. Look at the effects of altruism and hatred on game...

International Relations: A Simple Introduction offers an accessible guide to the central ideas and tools of international relations, with theory, empirical evidence, examples, and diagrams to support the analysis.Examine gains from trade theory, using the concepts of absolute efficiency, relative efficiency, opportunity cost, comparative advantage, and the terms of trade to learn why countries get involved with international trade.Explore trade liberalization, as the role o...

Econometrics: A Simple Introduction offers an accessible guide to the principles and methods of econometrics, with data samples, regressions, equations and diagrams to illustrate the analysis.Examine a linear and multiple regression model, ordinary least squares method, and the Gauss-Markov conditions for a best linear unbiased estimator.Understand hypothesis testing, with a null hypothesis, t, F or chi-square test statistics and distributions, and interpret regression resu...

Corporate Finance: A Simple Introduction provides an accessible guide to the principles and methods of corporate finance, with equations and examples, empirical evidence, and diagrams to illustrate the analysis.Examine the traditional theory of optimal debt and equity financing, how Modigliani and Miller's theory on capital structure differs, and the impact corporate and personal taxes or market imperfections may have on the optimal capital structure.Understand dividend irr...

Financial Economics: A Simple Introduction offers an accessible guide to the central ideas and methods of financial economics, with examples and calculations, empirical evidence, and over 20 diagrams to support the analysis.Understand consumption and investment decisions, intertemporal choice, indifference curves and the marginal rate of substitution, production possibilities and the marginal rate of transformation, rates of return, the financial market line, borrowing and lending,...

Choice Theory: A Simple Introduction offers an accessible guide to the central theories and methods of choice theory, with examples and calculations, empirical evidence, and over 20 diagrams to support the analysis.Examine expected value theory, with the two envelopes problem and St. Petersburg paradox which challenge it. Understand expected utility theory and learn how to create a utility function, and assess the Ellsberg paradox, Allais paradox, and preference reversal phenomenon...

Applied Econometrics: A Simple Introduction offers a detailed guide to some of the central methods and applications of applied econometrics, with theory, models, calculations, and graphs to support analysis.S&P 500 equities, GSCI commodities, and US Treasury Bill risk-free rate datasets are assessed for their data distributions, autocorrelation, and stationarity. The Engle-Granger 2 step method, Johansen test and the Vector Error Correction Model test for and correct cointegration....

Environmental Economics: A Simple Introduction offers an accessible guide to the central theories and methods of environmental economics, with examples, equations, and diagrams to support the analysis.Understand the problem of environmental degradation, and why environmental externalities and market failure cause pollution to spiral out of control.Examine the effectiveness of the polluters pay principle and a range of pollution control instruments, including bargaining, Pig...

Methods of Microeconomics: A Simple Introduction is an accessible guide to the mathematical methods of microeconomics. Worked examples are combined with exercises and solutions for readers, as economic relationships and equilibrium values are revealed and outcomes predicted.Consumer preferences and utility are examined with indifference curves, and differentiation to find marginal utility and the marginal rate of substitution. Consumer choice uses a Lagrange multiplier for optimiza...

Investment Formulas: A Simple Introduction includes over 80 formulas in the investment field, alongside relevant definitions and explanations. The formulas cover the topics of historical return measures, investment models, portfolio performance evaluation, firm and stock valuation, bond portfolio management, derivatives, and option valuation.