Curricula and Syllabi in Game Theory

Game Theory and Economic Applications (ECON 212 FC)

John Hillas, University of Auckland

Course page for a 2014 course based around Dixit and Susan Skeath's text Games of Strategy. Includes a 95-page PDF booklet of detailed lecture notes and problems, reading list for the 12-week course, and problem sets and tests with answers. This link goes to the Archive.org copy of the site.

Published or updated: 2014

Game Theory with Professor Ben Polak

Ben Polak, Yale

Part of the Open Yale service, this course from 2007 is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking. Ideas such as dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, evolutionary stability, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, adverse selection, and signalling are discussed and applied to games played in class and to examples drawn from economics, politics, the movies, and elsewhere. It is taught by Ben Polak and features videos, audio, course syllabus and lecture notes.

Published or updated: 2007

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Economic applications of Game Theory

Muhamet Yildiz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Detailed lecture notes, slides, problem sets and exam questions from Muhamet Yildiz's 'Economic applications of game theory' course in 2004. The syllabus, lecture notes, slides, exams and problem sets are available to download as PDF files. It includes supplementary notes on rationaliazability, partnership games and forward induction.

Published or updated: 2004

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