To familiarize students with game theory, the main alternative to competitive market reasoning. To enlighten students on theories of strategic reasoning and behavior to promote better understanding of economic theory and to inform decision-making in the real world.
Extensive form games Backward induction Common knowledge Normal form games The notion of strategy Dominated strategies Nash equilibria Mixed strategies Zero-sum games Mini-max strategies Repeated games Cooperative and non-cooperative bargaining Static games of incomplete information Auction theory Dynamic games Perfect Bayesian equilibria Signaling games Evolutionary game theory