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

Bibliography

Gibbons, R. (1992): A Primer in Game Theory, Harvester Wheatsheaf.
Tadelis, S. (2013): Game Theory: An Introduction, Princeton University Press.

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