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040236 UK Strategic thinking in practice (BA) (2025S)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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Details

max. 50 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Dienstag 11.03. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Donnerstag 13.03. 08:00 - 09:30 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Dienstag 25.03. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Donnerstag 27.03. 08:00 - 09:30 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Dienstag 01.04. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Dienstag 08.04. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Dienstag 29.04. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Dienstag 06.05. 08:00 - 11:15 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Donnerstag 08.05. 08:00 - 09:30 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Dienstag 27.05. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Dienstag 10.06. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Donnerstag 12.06. 08:00 - 09:30 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Dienstag 24.06. 08:00 - 11:15 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Strategic thinking means to make choices when influenced by the choices of others. Hence, your favorite choices will depend on how others choose. The objective of this course is to consider strategic thinking in everyday life situations, in practice, and to model and understand the strategic concerns.
Topics include where to meet a friend if you forgot to agree on a meeting place, when to pay for the delivery of a good you are ordering online and how to bid in an auction. Students will be asked to bring their own examples too.
Each lecture will start with a small story, a video, a song or a proverb (Sprichwort) and then students start discussing what strategic choices are involved and how to solve the possible conflicts. Discussions in class help develop an understanding of how to anticipate what others do and thus to improve own decision making.
The course is not following a text book.

There is no formal requirement. But, you should have some basic knowledge of game theory, so you should only take this course after you have taken our bachelor game theory class.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Midterm 35%, Final 35%, Class participation and home works 30%

Mid-Term: May 6, 2025 during lecture hours
End-Term: June 24, 2025 during lecture hours

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

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

see above

Prüfungsstoff

material covered in class and mentioned as reading in class

Literatur

To brush up your game theory skills:
Game theory for applied economists, Gibbons, 1992.
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

To read other stories:
Thinking Strategically: Competitive Edge in Business, Politics and Everyday Life by Dixit and Nalebuff, 1991
Coopetition by Brandenburger and Nalebuff, 1996

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Mi 02.04.2025 09:45