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    ECON 212: Game Theory (Fall Term, 2017)

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    ECON 212: Game Theory (Fall Term, 2017)

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    ECON 212: Game Theory (Fall Term, 2017)

    Instructor Annie Liang


    Office: 462 McNeil Building
    Email: liang.annie.h@gmail.com
    Office Hours: Wednesdays 4-5PM

    Teaching Hanna Wang


    Assistant Office: 328 McNeil Building
    Email: hannaw@sas.upenn.edu
    Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:30-2:30PM

    Class MW 10:30-12PM

    Texts Strategy: An Introduction to Game Theory, Watson, J. (3rd Edition)

    Prerequesites Econ 101 and Math 114/115 in a previous semester.

    Lecture Notes Slides will be posted the day before lecture.

    Problem Sets There will be six problem sets. No late submissions are allowed, but your lowest
    problem set score will be dropped when computing your course grade.

    Grading There will be two midterms and one final exam. The final exam is worth 35%
    of the total grade, each midterm is worth 20%, and each problem set is worth 5%.

    Exam Dates Midterms: Oct. 2 and Nov. 1 (in class). The lectures before the midterms (Sept.
    27 and Oct. 30) will be reviews. Final Exam (Tentative): Dec. 19, 9-11AM
    (Tuesday)

    Other There will be no class on Nov. 20 (Monday) so that students who leave early for
    Thanksgiving Break do not need to make up any material. Also, notice that Nov.
    22 (Wednesday) has a Friday schedule.
    Students have two weeks from the day in which examinations are returned to report
    errors in grading and/or to request that problems be re-graded. If a student submits
    his/her exam for re-grading, then the student’s entire exam will be re-graded (with
    no guarantee of a higher total score).

    Topics Foundations
    Preference, Expected Utility

    Representation of a Game
    Extensive form, strategies.
    • Required reading: Watson, Chapters 1-3
    Normal form, beliefs.
    • Required reading: Watson, Chapters 3-4

    Normal-Form Games
    Best Response, Rationalizability
    • Required reading: Watson, Chapters 6-8
    Nash Equilibrium
    • Required reading: Watson, Chapters 9-10
    Mixed Strategies, Minimax
    • Required reading: Watson, Chapters 11-12

    Extensive-Form Games
    Extensive-Form, Backwards Induction, Subgame-Perfection
    • Required reading: Watson, Chapters 14-15
    IO Applications
    • Required reading: Watson, Chapters 16-17
    Bargaining
    • Required reading: Watson, Chapters 18-19
    Repeated Games, Applications
    • Required reading: Watson, Chapters 22-23

    Other Topics
    Random Events, Incomplete Information
    • Required reading: Watson, Chapter 24
    Risk and Contracting
    • Required reading: Watson, Chapter 25
    Bayesian Equilibrium, Applications
    • Required reading: Watson, Chapters 26-27
    PBE, Applications
    • Required reading: Watson, Chapters 28-29
    Common Knowledge, Email Game

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