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Econ 223: week 1 2012
Lecture 1 : Offically scheduled day and time not yet known (at Jan 2012) Gentle Introduction - defintions and examples (1 of 2)
- Topic: Basic concepts, definitions and illustrative examples
- handout | video on UC server | strategic econ videos on uctv
- read: Dixit and Skeath chapters 1 and 2
- webcast of Stop go Game from 2006 (with JFS comments at about 4 minutes into the clip...basis for a future homework question)
- webcast of analysis of Stop Go game (from 2008)
- webcast of stop go game "live" from 2005 - good examples of student reasoning...and learning...in this game
Lecture 2 : Offically scheduled day and time not yet known (at Jan 2012)Gentle Introduction: a simple 2x2 game actively played in class - stop Go (2 of 2)
- Topic: Review, interpret, play and analyze Stop Go game...The 6 (or 7) key questions that game theory always asks about situations of strategic interaction; ; note the homework exercise(s) on the handout...(#1 of 5 sessions on this topic)
- handout | video on UC server | strategic econ video on uctv
- read: Dixit and Skeath chapters 1 and 2
Lecture 3 : Offically scheduled day and time not yet known (at Jan 2012)Sequential Games (1 of 4)
- Topic: PDIP. then a simple 2x2 sequential game; using game trees; rollback reasoning; interpreting strategies and payoffs; (#2 of 5 sessions on this topic)
- handout | video on UC server | strategic econ videos on uctv
- read: Dixit and Skeath ch 3; Here is the 2 pp description by Martin Osborne of the results of the centipede game - I only showed the graph of outcomes in class - ...and how they're not as at variance with the theory as you might think.
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