Game Theory
News
- There is no exercise class in the first week (Oct 14).
- exam dates: Feb 9, 9:00 and ?
Course material
- on sciebo (password announced in lecture)
Lecture times
- Lecture: Thursday 16:00-17:30 (100/EG/HS XVIII)
- Exercise: Wednesday 16:00-17:30 (100/EG/HS XVIII)
Textbook
The course is based on a textbook (Gibbons (1992)). There are many alternative textbooks covering the same material (Tadelis (2013)) but they might use a slightly different notation etc.
Schedule
| Week | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction, Normal-Form Games, Strict Domination |
| 2 | Nash Equilibrium, Cournot Oligopoly |
| 3 | Bertrand, Tragedy of the Commons |
| 4 | Mixed Strategies, Multiple Equilibria |
| 5 | Dynamic Games with Perfect Information, Stackelberg |
| 6 | Extensive-Form Games, Subgame-Perfect Nash Equilibrium, Imperfect Information |
| 7 | Ultimatum Game, Sequential Bargaining |
| 8 | Repeated Games I |
| 9 | Repeated Games II |
| 10 | Bayesian Games, Bayesian Nash Equilibrium |
| 11 | Auctions |
| 12 | Dynamic Games with Incomplete Information, Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium |
| 13 | Signaling |
| 14 | TBA |
| 15 | Outlook, Open Questions |