Game Theory
- Course is offered for the PhD students at WSE
- I teach one half
- Aim: to introduce some formal models of game theory
- Grading: based on a talk based on a chosen research article (to be specified later)
- 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
- 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)