Standard syllabus
Game theory · Undergraduate · Economics
Topics
Static games
- Players, strategies, and payoffs
- Dominant strategies and iterated deletion
- Nash equilibrium in pure strategies
- Mixed-strategy equilibrium (intro computations)
- Coordination, chicken, and prisoners’ dilemma
- Oligopoly applications (Cournot/Bertrand as games)
Dynamic and incomplete information
- Extensive-form games and game trees
- Backward induction and subgame perfection
- Credible vs non-credible threats
- Repeated games and folk-theorem intuition (intro)
- Bayesian games and incomplete information (intro)
- Signaling and screening survey (Spence/Akerlof hooks)
Mechanism and cooperative ideas
- Auctions: English, Dutch, first/second price (intro)
- Matching markets survey
- Bargaining models (Nash/Rubinstein survey)
- Evolutionary games awareness (optional)
- Cooperative games and core (survey, if taught)
- Experimental game theory findings (intro)
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