London School of Economics and Political Science
Game Theory for Political Science, GV4C8:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/calendar/courseguides/GV/2018_GV4C8.htm
Teacher responsible and lecturer: Dr Kostantinos Matakos
Classes: Dr Mehmet Ismail
This course is compulsory on the MSc in Political Science and Political Economy. This course is available on the MSc in Public Administration and Government (LSE and Peking University) and MSc in Public Policy and Administration. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.
Course content
Introduction to game theory for graduate students of political science
1. The ingredients of games. Static games of complete information. Normal form and extensive form representation. Dominant strategies. Iterated deletion of strictly dominated strategies. Nash equilibrium.Mixed strategies.
2. Dynamic games of complete information. Backward induction and subgame perfection. Sequential bargaining. Finitely and infinitely repeated games. The Folk theorem.
3. Bayes rule and rationality. Bayesian Nash equilibrium. Perfect Bayesian equilibrium.
4. Applications to Political Science.
Teaching
20 hours of lectures and 8 hours of seminars in the MT. 1 hour of seminars in the ST.
Formative coursework
Weekly problem sets to be completed and discussed in class.
Assessment
Exam (100%, duration: 2 hours) in the summer exam period.