Lecture Notes

Game theory

1. Normal Form, Strict Dominance, and Iterations on Strict Dominance

2. Weak Dominance and Iterations on Weak Dominance

3. Nash Equilibrium 

4. Extensive Form Games

5. More on Extensive Form Games; Subgame Perfection

6. Mixed Strategies

7. Domination, Rationalizability, and Robustness

8. Static Games of Incomplete Information

9. Static Games of Incomplete Information: Double Auction, Purification, Ex Ante vs Interim

10. Existence of Equilibrium

11. Dynamic Games with Incomplete Information

12. Selten's Horse and Why One Should Have Beer for Breakfast

13. More on Signalling; Cheap Talk

14. Repeated Game (2020 Version)

15. Bargaining (Not in exam for 2022)

16. Nash Bargaining

Mechanism design

1. Arrow Theorem

2. Mechanism Design

3. Mechanism Design: Gibbard and Satterthwaite's Theorem

4. Mechanism Design: Groves and Related Mechanisms

5. Optimal Mechanism Design: Auction Design 1

6. Optimal Mechanism Design: Auction Design 2

Contract theory

1. Adverse Selection: Rothschild and Stiglitz (1976)

2. Moral Hazard (2022 Version)