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Course Topics
Release Dates Due Dates
1/6 (midnight PST) Week 1: Introduction
Introduction, overview, uses of game theory, some applications and examples, and formal definitions of: the normal form, payoffs, strategies, pure strategy Nash equilibrium, dominant strategies..
PSet 1 Release 1/13 (midnight PST) PSet 1 Suggested Deadline
1/13 (midnight PST) Week 2: Mixed-Strategy Nash Equilibrium
pure and mixed strategy Nash equilibria.
PSet 2 Release 1/20 (midnight PST) PSet 1 Full Credit Deadline
PSet 2 Suggested Deadline
1/20 (midnight PST) Week 3: Alternate Solution Concepts
Iterative removal of strictly dominated strategies, minimax strategies and the minimax theorem for zero-sum game, correlated equilibria.
PSet 3 Release 1/27 (midnight PST) PSet 2 Full Credit Deadline
PSet 3 Suggested Deadline
1/27 (midnight PST) Week 4: Extensive-Form Games
Perfect information games: trees, players assigned to nodes, payoffs, backward Induction, subgame perfect equilibrium, introduction to imperfect-information games, mixed versus behavioral strategies.
PSet 4 Release 2/3 (midnight PST) PSet 3 Full Credit Deadline
PSet 4 Suggested Deadline
2/3 (midnight PST) Week 5: Repeated Games
Repeated prisoners dilemma, finite and infinite repeated games, limited-average versus future-discounted reward, folk theorems, stochastic games and learning.
PSet 5 Release 2/10 (midnight PST) PSet 4 Full Credit Deadline
PSet 5 Suggested Deadline
2/10 (midnight PST) Week 6: Bayesian Games
General definitions, ex ante/interim Bayesian Nash equilibrium.
PSet 6 Release 2/17 (midnight PST) PSet 5 Full Credit Deadline
PSet 6 Suggested Deadline
2/17 (midnight PST) Week 7: Coalitional Games
Transferable utility cooperative games, Shapley value, Core, applications.
PSet 7 Release 2/24 (midnight PST) PSet 6 Full Credit Deadline
PSet 7 Suggested Deadline
2/24 (midnight PST) Week 8: Final Exam Available
3/3 (midnight PST) PSet 7 Full Credit Deadline
Week 9: Final Exam Due 3/10 (midnight PST) Final Exam Deadline
Partial Credit Deadline for all PSets
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