Universität Wien

040066 KU Game Theory (MA) (2025S)

8.00 ECTS (4.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
Moodle
Mi 11.06. 08:00-09:30 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 50 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Dienstag 11.03. 08:00 - 09:30 Hörsaal 10 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Dienstag 11.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Mittwoch 26.03. 08:00 - 09:30 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Mittwoch 26.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Donnerstag 27.03. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 10 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Mittwoch 02.04. 08:00 - 09:30 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Mittwoch 02.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Donnerstag 03.04. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 10 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Mittwoch 09.04. 08:00 - 09:30 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Mittwoch 09.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Donnerstag 10.04. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 10 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Dienstag 29.04. 08:00 - 09:30 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Mittwoch 30.04. 08:00 - 09:30 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Mittwoch 07.05. 16:45 - 20:00 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Donnerstag 08.05. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 15 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Dienstag 27.05. 08:00 - 09:30 Hörsaal 10 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Mittwoch 28.05. 08:00 - 09:30 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Mittwoch 28.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Mittwoch 11.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Donnerstag 12.06. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 15 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Mittwoch 25.06. 08:00 - 09:30 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Mittwoch 25.06. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Mittwoch 25.06. 16:45 - 20:00 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

The objective of this course is to learn how to master game theory and how to apply it to modelling information. Game theory is the theory of making decisions when outcomes are influenced by others making decisions. Games will be played in class to help gain intuition. There will be real life examples (such as auctions, market entry, public good provision) but the main emphasis is on the methodology, the mathematics of strategic decision making. Information Economics brings in the aspects of how to make strategic choices when there is uncertainty.
Game theory topics we will be covering include
1. Utility, uncertainty, risk, decision making and rationality
2. Games, strategies and timing
3. Dominance, iterated dominance, rationalizability
4. Extensive form games with perfect information, backwards induction
5. Nash equilibrium
6. Subgame perfection, forward induction
7. Repeated games, folk theorem
8. Bayesian games
Information Economics topics we will be covering include
1. Moral hazard
2. Adverse selection

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

There will be a midterm and a final exam. Each will count 35% of the grade, the remaining 30% will be the homeworks. There may also be a short written assignment over the easter break that counts as part of the homeworks. Some homeworks may be submitted in groups of two, other homeworks have to be worked on alone. The specific rules are described on each homework assignment sheet. No copying homeworks of others. If you only want a separate grade for the exercises, you need special permission from the vice dean of studies. These students may not submit the homeworks in groups, will be given a shorter midterm and final exam. Their homeworks count 2/3 of the grade, the midterm and final only 1/3.

Students wishing to do so, will be offered a "makeup possibility” for the final exam. The date for this makeup will be end of September. This makeup exam will be counted instead of the final, hence the grade can be improved and worsened.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

In both exams you may use your hand written course notes. The course is passed if sufficiently many points are gathered that identify that the participant has attained a minimal understanding of the material.

Mid-Term: May 7, 2025 16:45 -
End-Term: June 25, 2025 16:45 -

Prüfungsstoff

The topics are listed in the paragraph on aims, contents and methods of the course.

Literatur

Kokesen, L. and E. Ok. 2007. An Introduction to Game Theory. Online lecture notes
https://sites.google.com/view/lkockesen/home/teaching/undergraduate-game-theory?authuser=0
Fudenberg, D. and J. Tirole. 1991. Game Theory. MIT Press
Mas-Colell, A., M.D. Whinston and J.R. Green. 1995. Microeconomic Theory. Oxford University Press (only selected chapters)
Osborne Rubinstein book:
https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/EM20/OsborneRubinsteinMasterpiece.pdf

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Mi 28.05.2025 12:45