Microeconomics III (Game Theory)

Introductory course on Game Theory for undergraduate students in Economics.

Students evaluate basic models of strategic behavior between economic agents, and learn how to identify economic settings of strategic interdependence and analyze them as games.

Syllabus

Syllabus (in Portuguese)

Bibliography

• Dutta, P. Strategies and Games, MIT, 1999.
• Dixit, A., S. Skeath and D. Reiley, Games of Strategy, Norton, 2015.
• Talwalkar, P. The Joy of Game Theory, 2013.
• Tadelis, S. Game theory: An Introduction, Princeton University Press, 2013.
• Fiani, R. Teoria dos Jogos, Elsevier, 2015.

Content

Introduction to strategic games

• Lecture 1

Dominance solvability

• Lecture 2
• Lecture 3
• Lecture 4

Nash equilibria

• Lecture 5
• Lecture 6
• Lecture 7

Mixed strategies

• Lecture 8
• Lecture 9
• Lecture 10

Extensive games

• Lectures 11 and 12
• Lecture 13

Subgame perfect equilibria

• Lecture 14
• Lecture 15

Games of imperfect information

• Lecture 16
• Lecture 17
• Lecture 18

Strategic games of incomplete information

• Lecture 19
• Lecture 20
• Lecture 21

Extensive games of incomplete information

• Lecture 22
• Lecture 23
• Lecture 24

Teaching evaluations

• Teaching evaluation