useful extra material: Rolf Campos's UCLA Economics 201B Notes (Rolf has made these freely redistributable - thanks Rolf)

Timeline for Paper:

Ergin: 8/27-10/5, 10/26,10/28: 14 lectures (no class Sept 2 - labor day) problem set #1

Bargaining with complete information: slides

references:
*Admati & Perry (1987), "Strategic Delay in Bargaining," The Review of Economic Studies, 54(3), 345-64.
*Osborne and Rubinstein, Chap 7.
Fudenberg and Tirole, Chap. 4.
Rubinstein, A. (1982) “Perfect Equilibrium in a Bargaining Model,” Econometrica, 50, 97-109.
Yildiz, M. (2003) “Bargaining Without a Common Prior - An Immediate Agreement Theorem,” Econometrica, 71, 793-811.
Yildiz, M. (2003) “Walrasian Bargaining,” Games and Economic Behavior, 45-2, 465-487.

Reputation Formation signaling slides reputation slides

references:
*Osborne and Rubinstein Chaps. 12.
Fudenberg and Tirole, Chaps 8, 9, 11.
Kreps, D. and R. Wilson (1982) “Reputation and Imperfect Information,” Journal of Economic Theory, 27, 253-279.
Milgrom and Roberts (1982), “Predation, reputation and entry deterrence,” Journal of Economic Theory, 27, 280-312.
Kreps, D., P. Milgrom, J. Roberts, and R. Wilson (1982) “Rational Cooperation in the Finitely Repeated Prisoners’ Dilemma,” Journal of Economic Theory, 27, 245-52.
Fudenberg, D. and D. Levine (1989), "Reputation and Equilibrium Selection in Games with a Patient Player", Econometrica, 57, 759-778.

Bargaining with incomplete information slides

references:
Fudenberg and Tirole, Chap. 10.
*Gul, F, H. Sonnenschein, & Robert Wilson (1986), “Foundations of Dynamic Monopoly and the Coase Conjecture,” Journal of Economic Theory, 39, 155-90.
Abreu, D. & F. Gul (2000), “Bargaining and Reputation,” Econometrica, 68, 85-117.

Supermodular Games and Their Applications notes on supermodular games notes on supermodularity problem set 2

references:
*Milgrom, P. and J. Roberts (1990) “Rationalizability and Learning in Games with Strategic Complementarities,” Econometrica, 58, 1255-1277.
*Vives (2005): “Complementarities and Games: New Developments”.
*Topkis.

Matching notes on matching

*Roth and Sotomayor.
*Gale, D. and L.S. Shapley (1962), “College Admissions and the Stability of Marriage,” American Mathematical Monthly, 69, 9-15.
*Shapley and Scarf (1974): “On Cores and Indivisibility,” Journal of Mathematical Economics, 1, 23-28.
Kelso, A. S. and V. P. Crawford (1982), “Job Matching, Coalition Formation, and Gross Substitutes,” Econometrica, 50, 1483-1504.
Hatfield J. W. and P. Milgrom (2005) “Matching with Contracts,” American Economic Review, 95, 913-935.
Roth, A.E. (2007), “Deferred Acceptance Algorithms. History, Theory, Practice, and Open Questions,” mimeo.

Contracts: notes on contracts

Repeated Games: note on repeated games

Levine: 10/7-12/7: 14 lectures (no class 11/26 - Thanksgiving)

Decision Theory [6 lectures] slides, dual self, dual allais, bibliographyexperimental economics, altruism and spite, altruism and spite bibliography

problems equity premium problem

Innovation and Intellectual Property [3 lectures] perfectly competitive innovation slides innovation and growth slides

Learning in Games [3 lectures] learning, universal consistency, evolution, imitation, steady state learning, bibliography

BOOK: Fudenberg, D. and D. Levine, Theory of Learning in Games

Games, Mechanism Design and Competitive Equilibrium [2 lectures] lottery and sunspots slides liquidity constraint slides, bibliography