| Week |
Date |
Lecture |
Assignment |
Section |
reading in Varian |
reading in Bierman and Fernandez |
| 1 |
Jan 7 |
Econ 11 review |
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review problems |
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Jan 9 |
Monopoly |
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23 |
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| 2 |
Jan 14 |
Duopoly and the Prisoner's
Dilemma |
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31 |
11.4, 11.5 |
| |
Jan 16 |
Dominance and the Second
Price Auction |
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| 3 |
Jan 21 |
Iterated Dominance in the
Cournot Model |
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11.6, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3 |
| |
Jan 23 |
Nash Equilibrium and
Coordination Games |
PS#1A |
|
27 |
5.4, 11.7, 11.8 |
| 4 |
Jan 28 |
Cournot, Bertrand |
|
review PS#1A |
26 |
13.5, 13.6, 13.7 |
| |
Jan 30 |
Subgame Perfect
Equilibrium |
PS#1B |
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|
5.1, 5.2 |
| 5 |
Feb 4 |
Information Sets and the Normal
Form |
PS#2A |
review PS#1B and #2A |
|
11.3 |
| |
Feb 6 |
Stackelberg Equilibrium
and Precommitment |
PS#2B |
|
26 |
|
| 6 |
Feb 11 |
Discounting |
|
cancelled: extra office hours |
10 |
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| |
Feb 13 |
MIDTERM EXAM |
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| 7 |
Feb 18 |
Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma |
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review midterm |
|
23 |
| |
Feb 20 |
Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma |
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|
23 |
| 8 |
Feb 25 |
Long Run versus Short Run |
PS#3A |
review PS#3 |
|
23 |
| |
Feb 27 |
Probability Theory, Conditional
Probability and Bayes Law |
PS#3B |
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|
2.4, 3.3, 3.5 |
| 9 |
Mar 4 |
Expected Utility Theory |
|
preliminary course review |
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2.5, 2.6 |
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Mar 6 |
Mixed Strategy Equilibrium |
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11.9 |
| 10 |
Mar 11 |
Dynamic Programming |
PS#4 |
review PS#4 |
|
1 |
| |
Mar 13 |
Types and Incomplete
Information Cournot Competition |
|
final course review |
|
17 |
| 11 |
Mar 20 |
FINAL EXAM: Thursday, 3:00pm-6:00pm in Dodd 161 |
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