Game Theory, July 2016 semester

The syllabus for this course is here. Office hours are Tuesday/Thursday 1-3pm in Academic Staff Office 108B.

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Monday, July 11

Homework 1 due July 13. Remember to include the assignment template!

Wednesday, July 13

Homework 2 (Don't do exercises 2(c),3(b) and 4) due July 15.

Please view this link if you need a reminder about iterated deletion. It contains a lecture video and notes.

For question 3, the "voting game" is the same as the ice cream shop game we played in class.

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Friday, July 15

Homework 3 (Since we did not reach activity 5 in class, just do exercises 1a and 1b) (due July 18). Hint for 1b: you can combine the cases L and R. So you can say that the probability is x for player 1 choosing M, and the probability is 1-x for player 1 choosing L or R.

Please visit this link if you need a reminder about the penalty kick game we played in class. Click on the button "Best Response: Penalty Kicks in Soccer ".

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Monday, July 18

Homework 4 (due July 20)

Please visit this link if you need a reminder about the Nash equilbrium (click on Lecture Chapters 1,2 and 3)

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Wednesday, July 20

Homework 5 (due July 22)

Please visit this link if you need a reminder about the Cournot duopoly model.

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Friday, July 22

Homework 6 (due July 25)

Please visit this link if you need a reminder about mixed strategies. The Tennis example he uses is similar to the basketball example we studied in class.

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Monday, July 25

Homework 7 (due July 27)

Please visit this link if you need a reminder about evolutionary stable strategies.

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Remember to bring the same worksheet we used today to Wednesday's class!

Wedesday, July 27

Homework 8 (due Aug 1, Monday after the test)

Please visit this link if you need a reminder about mixed evolutionary stable strategies.

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Friday, July 29

First midterm. The test will cover everything from the first day of class until Wednedsay's class. Homework is NOT due on this day.

Monday, August 1

Homework 9 (due August 3)

Please visit this link and this link if you need a reminder about sequential games.

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Wednesday, August 3

Homework 10 (due August 5)

Please visit this link if you need a reminder about bargaining games.

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Friday, August 5

Homework 11 (due August 8)

Please visit this link if you need a reminder about incomplete information games.

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Monday, August 8

Homework 12 (due August 10)

Please visit this link if you need a reminder about the two-round fighting game we studied in class

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Wednesday, August 10

Homework 13 (due August 12, but I will accept late homeworks until Monday evening)

Please visit this link and this link if you need a reminder about repeated games

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