201 Game Theory Course Outline

Strategic Form Games: slides, bibliography, problems [1.5 weeks]

• Dominance and Rationalizability
• Nash Equilibrium
• Correlated Equilibrium
• 1/2 Dominance
  
• Trembling Hand Perfection
• Quantal Response Equilibrium
• Risk Dominance
• Public Goods Experiments
• Coordination Games Experiments

Extensive Form Games: slides, bibliography, problems David Rahmann's notes on self-confirming equilibrium [1.5 weeks]

• Subgame Perfection
• The Chain Store Game
• Centipede
  
• Bargaining
  
• Learning and Self-confirming Equilibrium

first problem set "due": Thursday January 26

first midterm exam: Thu February 2 in class grade distribution

Bayesian Games and Mechanism Design: slides, bibliography, problems, [1.5 weeks]

• Sequentiality
• Signalling
• Beer-Quiche
  
• The Hold Up Problem
  
• Mechanism design
• Revelation principle
• Principal-agent problem

second problem set "due": Thu February 9

Decision Theory: slides, bibliography, problems, [2.5 weeks]

• Expected Utility Theory
• Risk Aversion
• Intertemporal Preferences
• supplementary material: interest.xls, shiller.xls, see also Shiller's current data

second midterm exam: Thu February 23 in class grade distribution

third problem set "due": Thu March 2

Infinite Horizon and Repeated Games slides, dal-bo, bibliography, problems, answers [2.5 weeks]

• Dynamic Programming
• Limits of finite horizon games
• The folk theorem
• Folk theorem for matching games

final exam: 11:30am - 2:30pm on FRIDAY, March 24

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