A basic course in Game Theory taught by Prof. David Schmeidler (whom I'll be assisting).
The course deals with non-cooperative game theory as developed by J. von Neumann, Nash, and others. The Course will include the basic concepts of Non Cooperative Games and their limitations.
Main topics:
Introduction and examples, two-players games.
Zero-sum two games, optimal strategies and saddle points (Von Neumann).
Equilibrium in games in a strategic form (Nash).
Equilibrium (Aumann).
Games in an extensive\dynamic form.
Games with incomplete information (Harsanyi).
Repeated games.
Important Announcements:
29.03.2012
Homework assignment 3 will be uploaded tomorrow.
In the first lesson after the Passover vacation there will be a mid-term exam of 30 minutes. It will include a question about finding Nash-Equilibriums in a specific game.
22.04.2012
The mid-term exam on Tuesday will be of the form "Bohan meytiv".
2.05.2012
Office hours changed to Sunday from 15:00 to 16:00.
25.05.2012
I have added the list of the homeworks submitted until now and an instruction page explaining who can take the test accordingly.