EconS 424: Strategy and Game Theory (Spring 2017)

 Spring 2017 Syllabus

Lecture Material

• Unit 1
  • Lectures
    • Games, Strategies and Payoffs
    • Rationality, Dominance and Best Response
  • Practice & Review
    • Dominance Solvable Games
    • Rationalizability and Iterated Deletion of Strictly Dominated Strategies
• Unit 2
  • Lectures
    • Nash Equilibrium
    • Rationalizability and Nash Equilibrium
    • Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibrium
  • Practice & Review
    • Randomized Strategies Practice
• Unit 3
  • Lectures
    • Strictly Competitive Games
    • Nash Equilibrium with N Players
    • Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibrium with N Players
    • Nash Equilibrium in Games with Continuous Action Spaces
  • Practice & Review
    • Finding Nash Equilibria and applying the definition
    • Nash Equilibrium Practice with Continuous Strategies
• Unit 4
  • Lectures
    • Sequential Rationality and Subgame Perfect Nash Equilibrium
    • Strategic Pre-Commitment
    • Bargaining Games
  • Practice & Review
    • SPNE Practice I
• Unit 5
  • Lectures
    • Repeated Games I
    • Repeated Games II
  • Practice & Review
    • Repeated Games Practice I
    • Repeated Games Practice II
• Unit 6
  • Lectures
    • Bayesian Nash Equilibrium
    • Auctions
  • Practice & Review
    • Incomplete Information Practice I
    • Incomplete Information Practice II
• Unit 7
  • Lectures
    • Bayes-Nash to Perfect Bayes-Nash Equilibrium
    • Perfect Bayes-Nash Equilibrium Hand-out
    • Semi-separating Equilibrium
  • Practice & Review
    • Extension: Two-sided Signaling Games
    • Finding PBE Technique
    • Signaling Practice I
    • Signaling Practice II
    • Signaling Practice III

Exams

•   Midterm Exam with Solutions
•   Final Exam   (with Solutions)