SYLLABUS [212.339]
GAME THEORY AND ITS APPLICATION
By BIUNG-GHI JU
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
Seoul National University
E-mail: bgju@snu.ac.kr
Homepage: http://bgju.blogspot.com
Phone: 02-880-2879
Office: 16-636
Class Schedule: Tuesday and Thursday 7.5-
Classroom: 016-237
TA: 김용균, 박정흠
Seoul National University
E-mail: bgju@snu.ac.kr
Homepage: http://bgju.blogspot.com
Phone: 02-880-2879
Office: 16-636
Class Schedule: Tuesday and Thursday 7.5-
Classroom: 016-237
TA: 김용균, 박정흠
About This Course
Game Theory offers mathematical frameworks dealing with systems of
decentralized decision makers such as markets and other economic
systems, legal and political institutions, private or public
organizations etc. It is considered as a basic language in modern
economic analysis and positive political theory. In this course, we will
overview the classical results in Game Theory. We will also study its
application to some selected topics in Economics and Political Science.
- Textbook: An Introduction to Game Theory
by Martin J. Osborne, Oxford University Press, 2004 - Requirements
- Attendance 10
- Homework 10
- Quiz 30
- Final Examination 50
Course Outline
- Introduction
- Strategic game, Nash equilibrium
- Mixed strategy, Existence of Nash equilibrium
- Extensive form games with perfect information
- Games with imperfect information: Bayesian games
- Games with imperfect information: Extensive form games
- Repeated games
- Cooperative Game Theory
- Adverse selection, signaling, and screening
- Principal-agent problem
- Mechanism design
- Game Theory and Ethics
Agreements
Students taking this course must keep the following
- Turn your mobile phone off.
- No use of laptop computers and other electronic devices without my approval.