8103 Non-Cooperative Game Theory

Course: ECON 8103 MICROECONOMIC THEORY

(Non-Cooperative Game Theory)

Term: Spring 2025

Teacher: Professor ALDO RUSTICHINI

aldo.rustichini@gmail.com

Basic Information

The course covers the basic notions of Non -Cooperative Game Theory, both Normal Form and Extensive Form games.There are going to be home-works, a midterm in the fourth week, and a final in the last week.

Homeworks count for 20 per cent, midterm and final exam for 40 per cent of the final grade. The final exam is on the last day of class, at the time of the lecture. The Course description is below. This Syllabus is an official description of the content of the course; so any concept in the list may be in the final exam, and in the preliminary exam for this section.  

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Number of credits:  2

Course description

The course covers the basic notions of Non cooperative Game Theory, Normal Form and Extensive Form games. 

These are the topics more in detail: 

1. Basic definitions of Game Theory, Decision Theory.

2. Normal Form Games. Dominance. Iterated Elimination of Dominate Strategies.

3. Nash Equilibrium.

4. Bayesian Nash Games and Equilibria

5. Zero Sum Games, Value

6. Correlated Equilibria.

7. Perfect Equilibria 

8. Extensive Form Games.

9. Games with Perfect Recall, Linear games.

10. Kuhn’s Theorem.

11. Sub-games and Sub-game Perfect Equilibria

12. Sequential Equilibria