Fall 1998
(Tue 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Rolfe 1200)
(Thu 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Rolfe 1200)
Week
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Date
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Lecture
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Assignment Due
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reading in Bierman and Fernandez
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Other Material
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1 |
Thu Oct 1 |
Monopoly |
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Spreadsheet |
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Section |
NO MEETING |
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2 |
Tue Oct 6 |
Duopoly and the Prisoner's Dilemma |
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1.1-1.4 |
Instructions for Public Goods Experiment |
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Thu Oct 8 |
Dominance and the Second Price Auction |
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1.5 |
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Section |
Lagrange Multipliers |
review problems, review answers |
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3 |
Tue Oct 13 |
Iterated Dominance and the Cournot Model |
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Spreadsheet |
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Thu Oct 15 |
Nash Equilibrium and Coordination Games |
PS#1 |
1.6,1.7 |
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Section |
Second Price Auctions |
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4 |
Tue Oct 20 |
Cournot, Bertrand |
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2.1-2.5 |
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Thu Oct 22 |
Subgame Perfect Equilibrium |
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6.1-6.6 |
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Section |
Review PS#1 |
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5 |
Tue Oct 27 |
Information Sets and the Normal Form |
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15.1,15.2 |
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Thu Oct 29 |
Stackelberg Equilibrium and Precommitment |
PS#2 |
6.7 |
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Section |
The Cournot Model |
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6 |
Tue Nov 3 |
Discounting |
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9.5 |
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Thu Nov 5 |
Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma |
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9.1-9.5 |
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Section |
Review PS#2 |
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7 |
Tue Nov 10 |
MIDTERM EXAM |
midterm answers, midterm scores |
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Thu Nov 12 |
The Folk Theorem |
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9.1-9.5 |
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Section |
NO MEETING |
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8 |
Tue Nov 17 |
Long Run versus Short Run |
PS#3 |
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Thu Nov 19 |
Probability Theory, Conditional Probability and Bayes Law |
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15.3, 15.12 |
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Section |
Return and review midterm, Review PS#3 |
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9 |
Tue Nov 24 |
Expected Utility Theory |
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10.1-10.8 |
Spreadsheet |
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Thu Nov 26 |
THANKSGIVING |
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Section |
NO MEETING |
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10 |
Tue Dec 1 |
Mixed Strategy Equilibrium |
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10.4 |
Spreadsheet |
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Thu Dec 3 |
Dynamic Programming |
PS#4 |
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Section |
War of Attrition |
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11 |
Tue Dec 8 |
Types and Incomplete Information Cournot Competition |
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13.1-13.3 |
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Thu Dec 10 |
The Revelation Principle |
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13.4-13.5 |
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Section |
Review PS#4 |
review problems, review answers |
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12 |
Thu Dec 17 |
FINAL EXAM 8:00AM - 11:00AM 11:30AM - 2:30PM [Makeup] |
final answers, final scores |
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