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Syllabus

Syllabus (PDF)

Textbooks

Primary

Fudenberg, Drew, and Jean Tirole. Game Theory. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991.

Osborne, Martin J., and Ariel Rubinstein. A Course in Game Theory. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994.

Supplementary

Weibull, Jörgen W. Evolutionary Game Theory. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995.

Fudenberg, Drew, and David K. Levine. The Theory of Learning in Games. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998.

Krishna, Vijay. Auction Theory. San Diego, Calif.: Academic Press, 2002.

Articles

Games and Economic Behavior articles (1993-, vol. 5-) in the list are downloadable from the journal website: http://www.sciencedirect.com

Journal of Economic Theory articles (1993-, vol. 59-) in the list are downloadable from the journal website: http://www.sciencedirect.com

Articles before 1997 in Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies or Quarterly Journal of Economics are downloadable from JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org

Grading

There will be approximately five problem sets (40%) and a take-home final exam (60%).