Book Reviews
Martin W. Cripps of University College London reviews “Repeated Games”, by Jean-Francois Mertens, Sylvain Sorin, and Shmuel Zamir. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Presents the content of the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (Université Catholique de Louvain) discussion papers 9420, 9421, and 9422 and published as Repeated Games in 1994. Discusses basic results on normal form games; basic results on extensive form games; the belief space; a general model of repeated games; full information on one side; incomplete information on two sides; stochastic games; extensions and further results; and non-zero-sum games with incomplete information. Includes an additional appendix discussing further developments.” The late Mertens was a Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain. Sorin is with the Mathematics Department at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie. Zamir is Professor Emeritus and a founding member of the Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Professor of Economics at the University of Exeter Business School.