Syllabus
Updated A.Y. 2024-2025
Classes: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 16:00-18:00 in Aula P12
Tutorials: Thursdays, 14:00-16:00 in Aula P4 (starting 27 February)
Week 1
Choices in contexts of strategic interaction.
Dominant and dominated strategy.
Iterated Elimination of Strictly Dominated Strategies
Pure strategy Nash Equilibrium.
Week 2
Coordination and non-coordination games
Prisoner's Dilemma
Bertrand equilibrium
Week 3
Cournot equilibrium
Mixed strategies
Sequential games, credible and non-credible threats,
Subgame Perfect Nash Equilibrium
Entry Game
Week 4
Equilibrium of Stackelberg,
Repeated games.
Second part - Behavioral Approach to Game Theory
Experimental games to verify how individuals choose with respect to what is predicted by the theory. Experimental Literature and evidences from laboratories.
Dictator Game
Ultimatum game
Week 5
Trust game
Public good game
Social preferences (conditional or unconditional, distribution, psychological and moral)
Distinguish between the motivations underlying the choice (design and experiments)
The role of communication
Psychological and moral costs.
The role of social identity
Week 6
All the Students will play experimental games in the laboratory.