1/22: Introduction to the course and game theory
1/24: Simultaneous move games with discrete strategies I: Nash equilibrium, best responses
1/29: Simultaneous move games with discrete strategies II: rationalizability, minmax method
1/31: School closed!
2/5: Simultaneous move games with continuous strategies I
2/7: Simultaneous move games with continuous strategies II
2/12: Cournot and Bertrand competitions
2/14: Hotelling models and spatial location
Here is my lecture note before midterm 1
Homework 2
2/19: Midterm I
2/21: Second price auction and first price auction
2/26: Mixed strategy Nash equilibrium I: introduction
2/28: Mixed strategy Nash equilibrium II: Equality of Payoffs Theorem and dominated actions
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3/8:
Here is my lecture note before midterm 2
Homework 3 (Problem 1: a third price auction, Problem 2: an auction in which the winning bidder pays the mean of the two highest bids) (available after Feb. 28)