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Spring/Summer 2006
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Professor: Roger
D. Congleton
Office : 02.25 - GW II
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| Office Hours: | Wednesday and Thursday 10:15 - 11:45, and most other times by appointment | .Review Sessions, to be arranged |
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Recommended Texts: |
TBA
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RDC1.Net |
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| Dates | Lectures | Text Readings (See Syllabus for complete reading list) | ||||
| 18/4 |
Professor Congleton is out of town.
Read through syllabus and first lecture notes |
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| 10/5 |
(L1) Introduction: Rational Choice, Self Interest, and Optimization |
L(1) notes | ||||
| 17/5 | (L2) An Introduction to Game Theory: Matrix Representaton of Games: Payoffs and Strategies |
L(2-4) notes | ||||
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Noncooperative Games in Normal Form
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| 24/5 | (L3) Applications and Extensions of 2-Person - 2 Strategies Games in Normal Form |
L(2-4) notes | ||||
| 31/5 | (L4) Applications and Extentions: Game with Continuous Strategy Sets |
L(2-4) notes | ||||
| 7/6 | (L5) Applications and Extensions to Economics and Politics |
L(5-6) notes |
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| 14/6 | (L6) Random Play and Mixed Strategy Equilibria |
L(5-6) notes |
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| 21/6 | (L7) Game Theory as an Aid to Philosophical Analysis | L(7) notes Game Theory and Ethics |
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Beyond Static Full Information Games
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Sign up for Exam |
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| 28/6 | (L8) Information and Equilibria in Economic Games | L(8) notes Appendix 8B |
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| 5/7 | (L9) Rationality and Learning in Repeated Games: Rationality, Myopia, and Evolution | L(9) notes , Stanford Encycl.of Philosophy | ||||
| 12/7 | (L10) Evolutionary Game Theory: Axelrod's PD tournaments | Axelrod, J Conf R, 1980 Axelrod, APSR, 1981 |
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| 19/7 | (L11) Evolutionary Game Theory: Congleton and Vanburg: repeated Prisoners Dilemma Games with Exit and the evolution of norms | |||||
| 26/7 | Final Exam (in Classroom H17 in NWII) | |||||
| Course Grades : Final Exam 95% Class participation 5% |
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