Game Theory

Lecture 1 Introduction: Five First Lessons

Lecture 2 Putting Yourselves into Other People's Shoes

Lecture 3 Iterative Deletion and the Median-Voter Theorem

Lecture 4 Best Responses in Soccer and Business Partnerships

Lecture 5 Nash Equilibrium: Bad Fashion and Bank Runs

Lecture 6 Nash Equilibrium: Dating and Cournot

Lecture 7 Nash Equilibrium: Shopping, Standing and Voting on a Line

Lecture 8 Nash Equilibrium: Location, Segregation and Randomization

Lecture 9 Mixed Strategies in Theory and Tennis

Lecture 10 Mixed Strategies in Baseball, Dating and Paying Your Taxes

Lecture 11 Evolutionary Stability: Cooperation, Mutation, and Equilibrium

Lecture 12 Evolutionary Stability: Social Convention, Aggression, and Cycles

Exam 1 Midterm Exam

Lecture 13 Sequential Games: Moral Hazard, Incentives, and Hungry Lions

Lecture 14 Backward Induction: Commitment, Spies, and First-Mover Advantages

Lecture 15 Backward Induction: Chess, Strategies, and Credible Threats

Lecture 16 Backward Induction: Reputation and Duels

Lecture 17 Backward Induction: Ultimatums and Bargaining

Lecture 18 Imperfect Information: Information Sets and Sub-Game Perfection

Lecture 19 Subgame Perfect Equilibrium: Matchmaking and Strategic Investments

Lecture 20 Subgame Perfect Equilibrium: Wars of Attrition

Lecture 21 Repeated Games: Cooperation vs. the End Game

Lecture 22 Repeated Games: Cheating, Punishment, and Outsourcing

Lecture 23 Asymmetric Information: Silence, Signaling and Suffering Education

Lecture 24 Asymmetric Information: Auctions and the Winner's Curse

Exam 2 Final Exam