Office hours: Wednesdays 2:00-3:00 or by
appointment, in Economics 319
Lectures: Mondays and
Wednesdays,
8:00-9:20 in Economics 300, Novermber 8, 13, 15, 20, 22, 27, and 29.
Organization: Instead of a
final exam, each segment will have its own take-home mini-exam/long
problem set. You are expected to work on these individually, i.e.
without consulting any classmates, faculty (except us), etc. My
mini-exam will be posted on the course website by the end of class on
November 29 and due by 4 p.m. Friday, December 1. This date is firm,
except in case of severe, unforeseeable events, in which case
exceptions must be requested as soon as possible, and before the
deadline.
The exam will include a flexible essay question, which is
given at the end of the syllabus linked below. This question is meant
to help you
think about how to use behavioral game theory to do economics; its
choices give you some freedom to make it about the kind of economics
you are interested in.
Final Mini-Exam, due by 4 p.m. Friday, December 1 (pdf)
Syllabus (includes the above-mentioned essay
question for the mini-exam)
(pdf)
The optional problem set, which should be good
practice for the final exam and may help you think about some of the
issues we discuss in lectures, is now posted here (pdf)
Lecture notes for Costa-Gomes, Crawford, and
Broseta, "Cognition and Behavior in Normal-Form Games" (pdf)
Lecture notes, manuscript, instructions, and
data for Costa-Gomes and Crawford, "Cognition and Behavior in
Two-Person Guessing Games" (link)
Lecture notes for Economics 207, Experimental
Economics (see especially pp. 15-18 on Beard and Beil, Management Science 1994) (pdf)
Milgrom and Yildiz's lecture notes on the
Nash bargaining solution from a game theory course at MIT (pdf)
Nagore Iriberri's lecture notes
on adaptive learning models (pdf);
Nagore's
survey paper on learning, useful background reading (pdf)
Lecture notes on dynamic analysis of Van Huyck
et al. experiments ("Learning Dynamics, Lock-in, and Equilibrium
Selection in Experimental Coordination Games") (pdf)
Mini-Exam TO BE POSTED BY THE END OF CLASS ON
NOVEMBER 29
