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LECTURES
Tue 12:30 AM - 1:45 AM Haines 39
The 12:30 AM - 1:45 AM Haines 39
SCHEDULE
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Problem sets
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date.
Week |
Date |
Lecture |
Assignment Due |
reading in Gibbons |
Other Material |
| 1 | Tue Apr 1 | Monopoly | Spreadsheet elasticity 1, 2 |
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| Section | REVIEW OF ECON 11 | ||||
| Thu Apr 3 | Duopoly and the Prisoner's Dilemma | 1.1 Basic Theory | |||
| 2 | Tue Apr 8 | Dominance and the Second Price Auction | |||
| Section | Lagrange Multipliers, Second Price Auctions | review problems, msword, review answers | |||
| Thu Apr 10 | Iterated Dominance and the Cournot Model | Spreadsheet, More About Cournot | |||
| Fri Apr 11 | PS#1, msword, answers | ||||
| 3 | Tue Apr 15 | Nash Equilibrium and Coordination Games | |||
| Section | Review PS#1 | ||||
| Thu Apr 17 | Cournot, Bertrand | 1.2 Applications | |||
| 4 | Tue Apr 22 | Subgame Perfect Equilibrium | 2.1A Theory: Backwards Induction | ||
| Section | Lab | ||||
| Thu Apr 24 | Information Sets and the Normal Form | 2.4 Dynamic Games of Complete but Imperfect Information | |||
| 5 | Tue Apr 29 | Stackelberg Equilibrium and Precommitment | PS#2, msword, answers | 2.1B Stackelberg Model of Duopoly | |
| Section | Extensive Form Games | ||||
| Thu May 1 | Discounting | 2.3B Theory: Infinitely Repeated Games | discounting a, b | ||
| Fri May 2 | deadline for regrading of PS #1 | ||||
| 6 | Tue May 6 | Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma | 2.3A Theory: Two-Stage Repeated Games | Repeated Games Step By Step | |
| Section | Review PS#2 | ||||
| Thu May 8 | MIDTERM EXAM | midterm answers, midterm scores | |||
| 7 | Tue May 13 | The Folk Theorem | 2.3B Theory: Infinitely Repeated Games | ||
| Section | Return and review midterm | ||||
| Thu May 15 | Long Run versus Short Run | PS#3, msword, answers | |||
| Fri May 16 | deadline for regrading of PS #2 | ||||
| 8 | Tue May 20 | Probability Theory, Conditional Probability and Bayes Law | |||
| Section | Review PS#3 | ||||
| Thu May 22 | Expected Utility Theory | Spreadsheet | |||
| 9 | Tue May 27 | Mixed Strategy Equilibrium | 1.3A Mixed Strategies | Spreadsheet | |
| Section | War of Attrition | ||||
| Thu May 29 | Dynamic Programming | PS#4, msword, answers | |||
| Fri May 30 | deadline for regrading of PS #3 and the midterm | ||||
| 10 | Tue Jun 3 | Types and Incomplete Information Cournot Competition | 3.1A An Example: Cournot Competition under Asymmetric Information | ||
| Section | Review PS#4 | review problems, msword, review answers | |||
| Thu Jun 5 | The Revelation Principle | 3.3 The Revelation Principle | |||
| LAST WEEK REVIEW SCHEDULE | |||||
| 11 | Wed Jun 11 8 am |
FINAL EXAM | final answers, final scores | ||