ECON 4022 - Game Theory II

(MQR-AS, SMR-AS)

Fall or Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: INFO 2040, ECON 2040, SOC 2090, ECON 3030, ECON 3130, ECON 4020, ORIE 4350, ECON 6110, or equivalents. Co-meets with ECON 6822.

L. Blume.

This course is meant to be a second game theory course for those students, who have had exposure to game theory. The class will be organized topically, and some topic choice will depend upon student interest. About half the term will be devoted to evolutionary game theory — static theory, deterministic dynamics, and stochastic dynamics. Other core topics include potential games and strategic complementarities. Additional topics may be selected from among cooperative game theory, refinements of Nash equilibrium, and estimation in games.