STAT 473 Game Theory
Fall 2014
- Week 1 Quick overview of decision making with one decision maker, introduction to strategic games of complete information
Read Chapters 1 and 2. Section 3.1
- Week 2 matrix representation of two player games,
rationality and common knowledge, dominated strategies
Read Read sections 3.2--3.4, 4.1, 4.2
- Week 3 Best responses, Nash equilibrium in pure strategies
Read section 4.3 + Chapter 5
- Week 4 Nash equilibrium in mixed strategies
Read Chapter 6
- Week 5 mixed strategy Nash equilibria continued, extensive games--the general set up
Read Chapter 7
- Week 6 strategies in extensive games, subgame perfect equilibrium, backward induction, midterm 1
Read Chapter 8.1, 8.2
- Week 7 mixed v. behavioral strategies, examples of subgame perfect equilibria in games of perfect information, Stackelberg oligopoly,
ultimatum, centipede, $ auction, mutual assured distruction
Read Chapter 8.3
- Week 8 multistage games, repeated games
Read Chapter 9, Chapter 10
- Week 9 repeated games, bargaining
Read Chapter 10, Chapter 11 (11.1--11,3)
- Week 10 Bayesian Games
Read Chapter 12
- Week 11 Bayesian Games, review, Midterm 2
- Week 12 Bayesian Games, Auctions
Read Chapter 13
- Week 13 Dynamic Games with imperfect information
Read Chapter 15
- Week 14 Signaliing games
Read Chapter 16
- Week 15 signaling games, review
Read
Last revised: 11/3/14