I will post slides for each class at latest the day before the class. The compact versions are best for printing, the complete ones best for viewing on a screen.
- Class 1 (October 23)
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Nash equilibrium (Sections 2.1–2.3 of "A Course in Game Theory").
Slides: complete (664KB, 2018-10-22 15:26:21) | compact (177KB, 2018-10-22 15:26:32)
Problems for Tutorial 1 (35KB, 2018-10-22 15:27:12) • Solutions for Tutorial 1 (44KB, 2018-11-01 20:26:36)
Problem Set 1 (40KB, 2018-10-26 15:48:01) • Solutions for Problem Set 1 (50KB, 2018-11-01 20:26:05) - Class 2 (October 25)
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Nash equilibrium continued (Section 2.4); introduction to mixed strategy Nash equilibrium (Section 3.1). [Section 2.5 will be omitted; I will return to the material in Section 2.6.]
Slides: complete (393KB, 2018-10-25 15:09:21) | compact (167KB, 2018-10-25 15:09:32)
Problem Set 2 (35KB, 2018-10-26 15:48:17) • Solutions for Problem Set 2 (48KB, 2018-11-01 20:27:18) - Class 3 (October 30)
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Mixed strategy Nash equilibrium continued. [Read Section 3.2. Sections 3.3 and 3.4 will be omitted.] Rationalizability and iterated elimination of strictly dominated actions (Section 4.2). Introduction to Bayesian games (Section 2.6).
Slides: complete (780KB, 2018-10-29 15:52:48) | compact (196KB, 2018-10-29 15:53:00)
Problems for Tutorial 2 (36KB, 2018-10-29 15:53:48) • Solutions for Tutorial 2 (45KB, 2018-11-08 18:07:32)
Problem Set 3 (39KB, 2018-10-29 15:53:16) • Solutions for Problem Set 3 (48KB, 2018-11-15 21:18:16) - Class 4 (November 1)
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Bayesian games continued (Section 2.6); purification of mixed strategy equilbria (Sections 3.2.3 and 3.2.4)
Slides: complete (578KB, 2018-10-31 20:49:54) | compact (149KB, 2018-10-31 20:50:05)
Problem Set 4 (38KB, 2018-10-31 20:50:19) • Solutions for Problem Set 4 (56KB, 2018-11-15 21:18:47) - Class 5 (November 13)
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Auctions; juries
Slides: complete (709KB, 2018-11-12 12:38:06) | compact (263KB, 2018-11-12 12:38:18)
Problems for Tutorial 3 (32KB, 2018-11-12 12:38:55) • Solutions for Tutorial 3 (48KB, 2018-11-15 21:19:36)
Problem Set 5 (32KB, 2018-11-12 12:38:33) • Solutions for Problem Set 5 (61KB, 2018-11-22 17:44:31) - Class 6 (November 15)
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Extensive games with perfect information: strategies, Nash equilibrium, subgame perfect equilibrium, the one deviation property (Sections 6.1, 6.2).
Slides: complete (627KB, 2018-11-14 15:21:05) | compact (163KB, 2018-11-14 15:21:15)
Problem Set 6 (35KB, 2018-11-14 15:21:30) • Solutions for Problem Set 6 (52KB, 2018-11-22 17:45:02) - Class 7 (November 20)
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Extensive games with perfect information: backward induction; Stackelberg games; ultimatum game; holdup game; adding chance moves and simultaneous moves (Section 6.3); Chain-Store game (Section 6.5.1).
Slides: complete (473KB, 2018-11-19 11:17:52) | compact (176KB, 2018-11-19 11:18:05)
Problems for Tutorial 4 (43KB, 2018-11-19 11:18:42) • Solutions for Tutorial 4 (63KB, 2018-11-22 17:43:27)
Problem Set 7 (30KB, 2018-11-19 11:18:24) • Solutions for Problem Set 7 (42KB, 2018-11-29 16:43:39) - Class 8 (November 22)
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Bargaining theory: bargaining game of alternating offers (Chapter 7, omitting the proof of uniqueness in Proposition 122.1).
Slides: complete (521KB, 2018-11-21 11:56:27) | compact (129KB, 2018-11-21 11:56:40)
Problem Set 8 (34KB, 2018-11-21 11:57:02) • Solutions for Problem Set 8 (51KB, 2018-11-29 16:41:36) - Class 9 (November 27)
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Nash bargaining solution (Sections 15.1, 15.2 (using the approach on pp. 308–309), 15.3). Relation between Nash solution and subgame perfect equilibrium of bargaining game of alternating offers (Section 15.4). Introduction to repeated games.
Slides: complete (274KB, 2018-11-26 11:34:15) | compact (117KB, 2018-11-26 11:34:28)
Problems for Tutorial 5 (33KB, 2018-11-26 11:35:19) • Solutions for Tutorial 5 (40KB, 2018-11-29 16:39:43)
Problem Set 9 (31KB, 2018-11-26 11:34:45) • Solutions for Problem Set 9 (37KB, 2018-12-06 23:00:58) - Class 10 (November 29)
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Repeated games (Sections 8.1–8.5 (preferences with discounting only)).
Slides: complete (522KB, 2018-11-28 11:21:19) | compact (166KB, 2018-11-28 11:21:29)
Problem Set 10 (31KB, 2018-11-28 11:21:48) • Solutions for Problem Set 10 (39KB, 2018-12-06 23:01:31) - Class 11 (December 4)
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Repeated games: Subgame perfect equilibrium (Section 8.8), finitely repeated games (Section 8.10).
Slides: complete (637KB, 2018-12-03 14:57:01) | compact (189KB, 2018-12-03 14:57:13)
Problems for Tutorial 6 (29KB, 2018-12-03 14:58:02) • Solutions for Tutorial 6 (32KB, 2018-12-06 22:58:52)
Problem Set 11 (36KB, 2018-12-03 14:57:35) • Solutions for Problem Set 11 (40KB, 2018-12-06 23:04:48) - Class 12 (December 6)
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Extensive games with imperfect information: Introduction (Sections 11.1, 11.4, 11.5, 12.1–12.3).
Slides: complete (753KB, 2018-12-05 15:47:40) | compact (200KB, 2018-12-05 15:47:50)
Problem Set 12 (36KB, 2018-12-05 15:48:04) • Solutions for Problem Set 12 (44KB, 2018-12-06 23:00:08)