First Year Graduate Economic Theory Course Outline

First Half, Game Theory, Levine

Static Games: slides bibliography problem set

• Normal Form Games
• Mixed Strategies
• Best Responses
• Dominance and Rationalizability
• Public Goods Experiments
• Nash Equilibrium
• Coordination Games Experiments
• 1/2 Dominance
• Trembling Hand Perfection
• Correlated Equilibrium
• Approximate and Near Equilibria
• Quantal Response Equilibrium

Extensive Form Games: slides [Palgrave Bargaining Purification] bibliography David Rahmann's notes on self-confirming equilibrium problem set

• Behavior Strategies
• Subgame Perfection
• The Rubinstein Bargaining Game
• Trembling Hand Perfection
• Self-Confirming Equilibrium
• Ultimatum Bargaining
• Centipede Game
  

Bayesian Games and Mechanism Design: slides bibliography problem set

• Bayesian Nash Equilibrium
• Cournot with Types
• Sequentiality
• Signalling Games and the Intuitive Criterion
  
• Pooling and Separating
  
• Beer-Quiche Game
• Reputation Formation
• The Holdup Problem
• Robustness
• Mechanism Design
  
• Auctions
• Information Aggregation
• Principal Agent Problem
• Macro Insurance Problem
  

Decision Theory: slides bibliography problem set

• Expected Utility Theory
• Risk Aversion
• Intertemporal Preferences
• Dynamic Programming
• supplementary material: interest.xls, shiller.xls, see also Shiller's current data

Infinite Horizon and Repeated Games: slides  dal-bo slides  reputation slides [Palgrave Repeated Games Reputation] bibliography problem set

• Limits of finite horizon games
• The folk theorem
• Folk theorem for matching games

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