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Spring 2008

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  LECTURES

Mon 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Elliot 102

Wed 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Elliot 102

  DISCUSSION

Fri 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Elliot 213

  SCHEDULE

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Week

Date

Lecture

Assignment Due

reading in Gibbons

Other Material
1 Mon Jan 14 Demand Theory
Wed Jan 16 Monopoly     Spreadsheet
elasticity 1, 2
  Section Lagrange Multipliers, Second Price Auctions review problems, msword,  review answers    
2 Mon Jan 21 No Class Martin Luthor King Day
Wed Jan 23 Duopoly and the Prisoner's Dilemma   1.1 Basic Theory  
section
 3 Mon Jan 28 Dominance and the Second Price Auction      
  Wed Jan 30 Iterated Dominance and the Cournot Model     Spreadsheet, More About Cournot

Section
 Review PS#1  PS#1, msword, answers    
4 Mon Feb 4 Nash Equilibrium and Coordination Games       
Wed Feb 6 Cournot, Bertrand   1.2 Applications  
  Section Lab      
5 Mon Feb 11 FIRST MIDTERM answers
Wed Feb 13 Subgame Perfect Equilibrium   2.1A Theory: Backwards Induction  
 6 Mon Feb 18 Information Sets and the Normal Form   2.4 Dynamic Games of Complete but Imperfect Information  
  Wed Feb 20 Stackelberg Equilibrium and Precommitment PS#2, msword, answers 2.1B Stackelberg Model of Duopoly  
  Section Return and review first midterm      
 7 Mon Feb 25 Discounting   2.3B Theory: Infinitely Repeated Games discounting a, b 
  Wed Feb 27 Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma   2.3A Theory: Two-Stage Repeated Games Repeated Games Step By Step
  Section Extensive Form Games      
 8 Mon Mar 3 The Folk Theorem, Dal Bo's Experiment   2.3B Theory: Infinitely Repeated Games  
  Wed Mar 5 Long Run versus Short Run PS#3, msword, answers    
  Section Review PS#2      
9 Mar 10-12 SPRING BREAK NO CLASS
 10 Mon Mar 17 Probability Theory, Conditional Probability and Bayes Law      
  Wed Mar 19 Expected Utility Theory     Spreadsheet
  Section Review PS#3      
11 Mon Mar 24 Mixed Strategy Equilibrium   1.3A Mixed Strategies Spreadsheet
Wed Mar 26 SECOND MIDTERM
  Section War of Attrition      
 12 Mon Mar 31 Dynamic Programming PS#4, msword, answers    
Wed Apr 2 Types and Incomplete Information Cournot Competition   3.1A An Example: Cournot Competition under Asymmetric Information  
  Section Review PS#4      
 13 Mon Apr 7 The Revelation Principle I   3.3 The Revelation Principle  
Wed Apr 9 Revelation Principle II
14 Mon Apr 14 Competitive Equilibrium I
Wed Apr 16 Competitive Equilibrium II
 ps#5, msword,  ps#5 answers
15 Mon Apr 21 Competitive Equilibrium III
Wed Apr 23 Course Review ps#6
11
FINAL EXAM final answers, final scores