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Spring 2008

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  LECTURES

Mon 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Siegle L06

Wed 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Siegle L06

  DISCUSSION

Fri 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Siegle L06

  SCHEDULE

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Week

Date

Lecture

Assignment Due

reading in Gibbons

Other Material

1 Wed Aug 27 Demand Theory      
2 Mon Sept 1 No Class Labor Day      
Wed Sept 3 Monopoly      Spreadsheet
elasticity 1, 2
  Fri Sept 5 Section Math Review: partial derivatives
review problems, msword,  answers      
3 Mon Sept 8 Duopoly and the Prisoner's Dilemma   1.1 Basic Theory   
  Wed Sept 10 Dominance and the Second Price Auction       
Fri Sept 12 Section Second Price Auctions    
 4 Mon Sept 15 Iterated Dominance and the Cournot Model     Spreadsheet, More About Cournot
Wed Sept 17 Nash Equilibrium and Coordination Games       

Section
Review Problem Set #1  PS#1, msword, answers    
5 Mon Sept 22 Cournot, Bertrand   1.2 Applications  
Wed Sept 24 FIRST MIDTERM answers    
Fri Sept 26 Section NO MEETING      
6 Mon Sept 29 Subgame Perfect Equilibrium   2.1A Theory: Backwards Induction  
  Wed Oct 1 Information Sets and the Normal Form   2.4 Dynamic Games of Complete but Imperfect Information  
Fri Oct 3 Section Review First Midterm Answers    
Mon Oct 6 Stackelberg Equilibrium and Precommitment
2.1B Stackelberg Model of Duopoly  Dr. Strangelove
  Wed Oct 8 Discounting    2.3B Theory: Infinitely Repeated Games discounting a, b 
Section Review Problem Set #2  PS#2, msword, answers    
 8 Mon Oct 13 Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma    2.3A Theory: Two-Stage Repeated Games Repeated Games Step By Step
  Wed Oct 15 The Folk Theorem, Dal Bo's Experiment    2.3B Theory: Infinitely Repeated Games  
Section
Extensive Form Games
     
 9 Mon Oct 20 Long Run versus Short Run
    
  Wed Oct 22 Probability Theory, Conditional Probability and Bayes Law        
Section Review Problem Set #3  PS#3, msword, answers    
 10 Mon Oct 27 Expected Utility Theory       Spreadsheet

Wed Oct 29 Mixed Strategy Equilibrium    1.3A Mixed Strategies Spreadsheet
Section Review for Second Midterm
 
   
11 Mon Nov 3 SECOND MIDTERM      
  Wed Nov 5 Applications: Pride and Attrition      
Wed Nov 7 Section Review Problem Set #4
 PS#4, msword, answers    
12 Mon Nov 10 Dynamic Programming    3.1A An Example: Cournot Competition under Asymmetric Information  
  Wed Nov 12 Types and Incomplete Information Cournot Competition    3.3 The Revelation Principle  
Fri Nov 14 Section Review Second Midterm Answers      
13 Mon Nov 17 The Revelation Principle I      

Wed Nov 19 Revelation Principle II  
   
Fri Nov  21 Section Review Problem Set #5  ps#5mswordps#5 answers    
14 Mon Nov 24 Competitive Equilibrium I
   
Wed Nov 26 No Class Thanksgiving      
15 Mon Dec 1 Competitive Equilibrium II      
Wed Dec 3 Competitive Equilibrium III      
Fri Dec 5 Section Review Problem Set #6  ps#6 answers    
16 Mon Dec 8 Course Review
   
11 Tue Dec 16 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM Siegle L006 FINAL EXAM final answers, final scores