ECON 404 - Games and Economics
Administrative details
Date and location: Monday and Wednesday 2.00pm - 3.50pm, KAP 146
Office hours: Wednesdays 4.00pm – 5.30pm; KAP 334A
Teaching Assistant: Aleksandar Giga, email: aleksandar.giga@usc.edu
Office hours of Teaching Assistant: Thursdays 3pm - 5pm; KAP 363
Books
Required book
Game Theory for Applied Economists, Robert Gibbons, Princeton University Press (1992)
Recommended books
Game Theory, Drew Fudenberg and Jean Tirole, MIT Press (1992)
Markets, Games and Strategic Behavior, Charles Holt, Addison Wesley (2006)
Strategy, Joel Watson, WW Norton (2007)
Syllabus
The syllabus (in PDF version) can be found here
Important dates
Midterm date: Wednesday, October 12 from 2pm to 3.30pm
Final date: Friday, December 8 from 2pm to 4pm
Problem sets
GENERAL GUIDELINES
For the problem sets, work alone or in groups of two (maximum). Turn in the assignments individually at the beginning of class or by email to Aleks (aleksandar.giga@usc.edu) before class starts (no late assignments will be accepted). Do not discuss your results with people outside your group.
Please write down how you arrived to your conclusions. If reasoning is rigorous and correct you will get partial credit even if the answer is not.
If you have problems, you can ask the T.A. for clarifications but please don't expect the T.A. to solve the problem for you or tell you the solution.
PROBLEM SETS
Problem Set 1 (due date: Wednesday, September 7).
Sketch of solutions to Problem Set 1.Problem Set 2 (due date: Wednesday, September 21).
Sketch of solutions to Problem Set 2.Problem Set 3 (due date: Wednesday, October 5).
Sketch of solutions to Problem Set 3.Problem Set 4 (due date: Monday, October 31).
Sketch of solutions to Problem Set 4.Problem Set 5 (due date: Monday, November 7).
Sketch of solutions to Problem Set 5.Problem Set 6 (due date: Monday, November 21).
Sketch of solutions to Problem Set 6.