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Recitations for this course meet for 1 hour each Friday.


Lec #TopicsKey Dates
1Introduction to Game Theory
2Payoffs in Games: Rational Choice Under Uncertainty

Expected Utility Theory; Risk Aversion
3-5A More Formal Introduction to Games

Extensive Forms and Normal Forms

Strategies, Dominant Strategies and Iterative Elimination of Strictly Dominated Strategies

Nash Equilibrium

Applications of Nash Equilibrium
6-8Backward Induction and Subgame Perfection

Analysis of Extensive-Form Games

Backward Induction

Subgame Perfection

Applications

Bargaining and Negotiations

Forward Induction

Applications
Problem Set 1 due on Lecture 6

Problem Set 2 due two days after Lecture 8
9Review
10In Class Midterm Exam 1
11-12Repeated Games and Cooperation
13-14Incomplete Information

Bayesian Nash Equilibrium

Auctions

Applications
Problem Set 3 due on Lecture 14
15-16Dynamic Games of Incomplete Information

Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium

Sequential Bargaining Under Asymmetric Information
Problem Set 4 due on Lecture 16
17Review
18In Class Midterm Exam 2
19-21Problems of Asymmetric Information in Economics

Signaling and the Intuitive Criterion

Applications of Signaling

The Principal-Agent Problem

Applications; Lemons, Efficiency Wages, Credit-Rationing, Price-Discrimination
Problem Set 5 due on Lecture 21
22-23Global Games
24-25Evolutionary Foundations of Equilibrium

Evolutionarily Stable Strategies and Replicator Dynamics
Problem Set 6 due on Lecture 25
26-27Applications and Review

Final Exam

 








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