ECON 159: Game Theory
Class Sessions
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1. Introduction: five first lessons |
2. Putting yourselves into other people's shoes |
3. Iterative deletion and the median-voter theorem |
4. Best responses in soccer and business partnerships |
5. Nash equilibrium: bad fashion and bank runs |
6. Nash equilibrium: dating and Cournot |
7. Nash equilibrium: shopping, standing and voting on a line |
8. Nash equilibrium: location, segregation and randomization |
9. Mixed strategies in theory and tennis |
10. Mixed strategies in baseball, dating and paying your taxes |
11. Evolutionary stability: cooperation, mutation, and equilibrium |
12. Evolutionary stability: social convention, aggression, and cycles |
Midterm Exam |
13. Sequential games: moral hazard, incentives, and hungry lions |
14. Backward induction: commitment, spies, and first-mover advantages |
15. Backward induction: chess, strategies, and credible threats |
16. Backward induction: reputation and duels |
17. Backward induction: ultimatums and bargaining |
18. Imperfect information: information sets and sub-game perfection |
19. Subgame perfect equilibrium: matchmaking and strategic investments |
20. Subgame perfect equilibrium: wars of attrition |
21. Repeated games: cooperation vs. the end game |
22. Repeated games: cheating, punishment, and outsourcing |
23. Asymmetric information: silence, signaling and suffering education |
24. Asymmetric information: auctions and the winner's curse |
Final Exam |
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