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LECTURES
Mon 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Mallinckrodt 302
Wed 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Mallinckrodt 302
DISCUSSION
Friday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Mallinckrodt 302
SCHEDULE
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Week |
Date |
Lecture |
Assignment Started/Due |
reading in Osborne |
Other Material |
| 1 | Mon Jan 14 (Levine) |
Monopoly |
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| 2 |
Wed Jan 16 (Levine) |
Duopoly and the Prisoner's Dilemma | Chapters 2, 3 |
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| Fri Jan 18 |
NO MEETING |
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| 2 |
Mon Jan 21 |
NO CLASS: MLK DAY |
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| Wed Jan 23 (Levine) |
Dominance and the Second Price Auction | PS#1: Dominance |
Chapter 2, 3 | Second Price Auction | |
| Fri Jan 25 |
NO MEETING |
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| 3 | Mon Jan 28 (Levine) |
Iterated Dominance and the Cournot Model | Spreadsheet, More About Cournot | ||
| Wed Jan 30 (Levine) |
Nash Equilibrium and Coordination Games | PS#2: Nash Equilibrium |
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| Fri Feb 1 (TA) |
Review Problem Set #1 | answers to PS#1 | |||
| 4 |
Mon Feb 4 (Levine) |
Cournot, Bertrand | Chapter 2, 3 |
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| Wed Feb 6 (Levine) |
Subgame Perfect Equilibrium | PS#3: Subgame Perfection |
Chapter 5, 6, 7 |
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| Fri Feb 8 (TA) |
Review Problem Set #2 | answers to PS#2 | |||
| 5 | Mon Feb 11 (Levine) |
Information Sets and the Normal Form | Chapter 5, 6, 7 |
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| Wed Feb 13 (Levine) |
Commitment 1 , Commitment 2 | Chapter 5, 6, 7 |
Dr. Strangelove | ||
| Fri Feb 15 (TA) |
Review Problem Set #3 | answer to PS#3 | |||
| 6 |
Mon Feb 18 (TA) |
Course Review | |||
| Wed Feb 20 (TA) |
First Midterm |
Midterm Answers Proportion |
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| Fri Feb 22 (TA) |
Review first midterm |
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| 7 |
Mon Feb 25 (Levine) |
Bargaining |
Chapter 16 |
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| Wed Feb 27 (Levine) |
Discounting | Chapter 14, 15 |
discounting a, b | ||
| Fri Mar 1 Section | NO MEETING |
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| 8 | Mon Mar 4 (Levine) |
Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma | Chapter 14, 15 |
Repeated Games Step By Step | |
| Wed Mar 6 (Levine) |
The Folk Theorem, Dal Bo's Experiment | Chapter 14, 15 |
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| Fri Mar 8 Section | NO MEETING | ||||
| 9 |
Mon Mar 11 |
SPRING BREAK | |||
| Wed Mar 13 |
SPRING BREAK | ||||
| Fri Mar 15 |
SPRING BREAK | ||||
| 10 | Mon Mar 18 (Coban) |
Long Run versus Short Run | PS#4: Repeated Games |
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| Wed Mar 20 (Coban) |
Probability Theory, Conditional Probability and Bayes Law | ||||
| Fri Mar 21 Section (TA) |
Problem Set # 4 | answers to PS#4 |
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| 11 | Mon Mar 25 (Coban) |
Expected Utility Theory | PS #5: Uncertainty |
Spreadsheet | |
| Wed Mar 27 (Coban) |
Mixed Strategy Equilibrium | Chapter 4 | Spreadsheet | ||
| Fri Mar 29 Section (TA) |
Course Review |
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| 12 |
Mon Apr 1 (TA) |
SECOND MIDTERM |
Midterm Solutions Distribution |
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| Wed Apr 3 (Coban) |
Applications: Pride and Attrition | ||||
| Fri Apr 5 section (TA) |
review second midterm |
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| 13 | Mon Apr 8 (Coban) | Dynamic Programming | |||
| Wed Apr 10 (Coban) |
Types and Incomplete Information Cournot Competition | Chapter 9 | |||
| Fri Apr 13 Section (TA) |
Review Problem Set #5 | answers to PS#5 | |||
| 14 |
Mon Apr 15 (Coban) |
Mechanism Design I | PS #6: Bayesian Games and Mechanism Design |
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| Wed Apr 17 (Coban) |
Mechanism Design II |
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| Fri Apr 19 Section (TA) | Review Problem Set #6 | answers to PS#6 | |||
| 15 | Mon Apr 22 (Coban) | Mechanism Design III | PS #7: Mechanism Design | ||
| Wed Apr 24 (Coban) | Mechanism Design IV (Review) | answers to PS#7 | |||
| Fri Apr 26 Section (TA) | Course Review |
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| Mon May 6 (TA) 10:30 am-12:30 pm Mallinckrodt 302 |
FINAL EXAM | final answers |