週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
Week 1 |
3/06 |
Topic 1: Fundamental Principles of Game Theory
What is a Game? | What is Game Theory? | Judo Strategy | Case: Honest Tea | Prisoners' Dilemma | Dominance | Assurance Game | Change the Game |
Week 2 |
3/13 |
Topic 2: Look Forward, Reason Back
Backward Induction | Rights of First Refusal | Case: Coors in the 1970s | Case: NutraSweet | Strategic Moves | Commitment | Case: Stickk.com |
Week 3 |
3/20 |
Topic 3: Social Dilemmas
Best Response | Mutually Best Responses | Experiment: Selfish Landlords | Self-enforcing Agreements | Chicken Game | Coordination Game | Focal Point | Battle of the Sexes | Cournot Competition | First-mover Advantage | Timing in Games
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Week 4 |
3/27 |
Topic 4: The Strategy of Uncertainty
Experiment: Pricing on the Internet | Mixed Strategies | Wimbledon | Bertrand Paradox | Bertrand vs. Cournot | Product Differentiation | All-pay Auctions | Prisoners' Dilemma Tournament |
Week 5 |
4/10 |
Topic 5: Coordination and Cooperation
Tacit Coordination | Carrot-and-stick Strategy | Prisoners’ Dilemma Tournament Debrief | Tit-for-tat Strategy | Coordination in Practice | Case: GE vs. Westinghouse | Wars of Attrition | Case: Hold or Fold |
Week 6 |
4/17 |
Topic 6: Information Economics
Experiment: The Value of Education | Signaling in Theory | Adverse Selection | Determining Credible Signals | Assessing Signals | Screening | Winner's Curse
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Week 7 |
4/24 |
Topic 7: Auctions
Experiment: A Problem of Resource Allocation | Venture Capital Financing | Experiment: Spectrum Auctions | Auction Formats | Optimal Bidding in Auctions | Auction Design |
Week 8 |
5/01 |
Final Project Presentations |