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Spring 1998

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LECTURES

Spring 1998 (Tue 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Bunche 2209A) (Thu 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Bunche 2209A)

SCHEDULE

Click on the lecture in the schedule below for the slides.

Problem sets may be changed. Please check the discussion page to learn when the final versions of problems sets are posted. Problem sets are due at the beginning of lecture on the indicated date.

Week	Date	Lecture	Assignment Due	Section	reading in Bierman and Fernandez	Other Material
1	Tue Apr 7	Monopoly	review problems			Spreadsheet
	Thu Apr 9	Duopoly and the Prisoner's Dilemma		review answers	1.1-1.4	Instructions for Public Goods Experiment
2	Tue Apr 14	Dominance and the Second Price Auction			1.5
	Thu Apr 16	Iterated Dominance in the Cournot Model				Spreadsheet
3	Tue Apr 21	Nash Equilibrium and Coordination Games	PS#1		1.6,1.7
	Thu Apr 23	Cournot, Bertrand		PS#1 answers	2.1-2.5
4	Tue Apr 28	Subgame Perfect Equilibrium			6.1-6.6
	Thu Apr 30	Information Sets and the Normal Form			15.1,15.2
5	Tue May 5	Stackelberg Equilibrium and Precommitment	PS#2		6.7
	Thu May 7	Discounting		PS#2 answers	9.5
6	Tue May 12	Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma			9.1-9.5
	Thu May 14	MIDTERM EXAM
7	Tue May 19	Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma		midterm answers, midterm scores	9.1-9.5
	Thu May 21	Long Run versus Short Run
8	Tue May 26	Probability Theory, Conditional Probability and Bayes Law	PS#3		15.3, 15.12
	Thu May 28	Expected Utility Theory		PS#3 answers	10.1-10.8	Spreadsheet
9	Tue Jun 2	Mixed Strategy Equilibrium			10.4	Spreadsheet
	Thu Jun 4	Dynamic Programming	PS#4
10	Tue Jun 9	Types and Incomplete Information Cournot Competition		PS#4 answers	13.1-13.3
	Thu Jun 11	The Revelation Principle			13.4-13.5
11	Thu Jun 18	FINAL EXAM: 8:00AM - 11:00AM	review problems	review answers
			final questions	final answers, final scores