Game Theory

  1. Course is offered for the PhD students at WSE
  2. I teach one half
  3. Aim: to introduce some formal models of game theory
  4. Grading: based on a talk based on a chosen research article (to be specified later)
  5. Literature:
    • Aumann, Lecture notes in game theory (main text)
    • Straffin, Game theory and strategy (undergraduate refreshment)
    • Myerson, Game theory, Analysis o conflict
    • Binmore, Playing for real
  6. Office hours (prior e-mail appointment)

Tentative schedule
Expected Utility theorem (von Neumann, Morgenstern 1944)
Zero-sum games and the minimax theorem (von Neumann 1928)
Nash equilibrium existence (Nash (1950)
Contradictions of game theory predictions (Goeree, Holt, 2001)