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040827 UK Game Theory and Information Economics (MA) (2014S)

12.00 ECTS (6.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work

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Details

max. 50 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 04.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Tuesday 04.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 9 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Monday 10.03. 13:45 - 15:45 Hörsaal 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 11.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Tuesday 11.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Monday 17.03. 13:45 - 15:45 Hörsaal 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 18.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Tuesday 18.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Monday 24.03. 13:45 - 15:45 Hörsaal 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 25.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Tuesday 25.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 9 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Monday 31.03. 13:45 - 15:45 Hörsaal 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 01.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Tuesday 01.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Monday 07.04. 13:45 - 15:45 Hörsaal 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 08.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Tuesday 08.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Monday 28.04. 13:45 - 15:45 Hörsaal 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 29.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Tuesday 29.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Monday 05.05. 13:45 - 15:45 Hörsaal 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 06.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Tuesday 06.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Monday 12.05. 13:45 - 15:45 Hörsaal 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 13.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 3.Stock
  • Tuesday 13.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 3.Stock
  • Monday 19.05. 13:45 - 15:45 Hörsaal 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 20.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Tuesday 20.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Monday 26.05. 13:45 - 15:45 Hörsaal 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 27.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 15 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 27.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 3.Stock
  • Monday 02.06. 13:45 - 15:45 Hörsaal 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 03.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Tuesday 03.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Monday 16.06. 13:45 - 15:45 Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 17.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Tuesday 17.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Monday 23.06. 13:45 - 15:45 Hörsaal 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 24.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Tuesday 24.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Monday 30.06. 08:00 - 10:00 Hörsaal 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

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

There are no formal prerequisites, however it is expected that you have taken an undergraduate game theory course. As a refresher please revise basic material before the course, eg Kokesen & Ok (2007).
There is a lecture held by me and a tutorial held by Mariya Teteryatnikova (tel – 37427, email mariya.teteryatnikova@univie.ac.at). The tutorials are practice sessions relating the material of my lecture.

Assessment and permitted materials

There will be a midterm and a final. Each will count 35% of the grade, the remaining 30% will be the homeworks. Homeworks have to be solved individually, it is not permitted to work in groups???

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

Reading list

Kokesen, L. and E. Ok. 2007. An Introduction to Game Theory. Online lecture notes http://home.ku.edu.tr/~lkockesen/teaching/uggame/lectnotes/uggame.pdf
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)

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