Office hours: Wednesdays 2:00-3:00 or by
appointment, in Economics 319
Lectures: Tuesdays and Thursdays
8:00-9:20 on in Economics 300, with the first meeting on Tuesday,
January 6
Organization: Those who just
want to hear the lectures should enroll S/U; there will then be no
formal requirements. Those who want a grade should enroll for one;
their requirement will be either a research paper on a topic in the
general area of the course or a three-hour final exam at a time to be
arranged in exam week. The final exam is the default for those enrolled
for a grade; those who wish to substitute a paper should discuss the
topic and timing with me by the fifth week. If you are a student who
plans to attend the lectures, please enroll either S/U or for a grade.
The final exam will include a half-hour essay question, which
is now posted below; this question is meant to help you think about how
to use behavioral game theory to do economics, and its choices give you
some freedom to make it about the kind of economics you are interested
in.
There is also an optional problem set below, which should be good
practice
for the final exam and may help you think about some of the issues we
discuss in lectures.
Vincent Crawford, "Theory
and Experiment in the Analysis of Strategic Interaction," in David
Kreps
and Ken Wallis, editors, Advances
in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications, Seventh World
Congress,
Vol. I, Econometric Society Monographs No. 27, Cambridge, U.K., and New
York:
Cambridge University Press, 1997, 206-242; reprinted with minor changes
and
additions in Colin Camerer, George Loewenstein, and Matthew Rabin,
editors, Advances in Behavioral Economics, Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003(pdf)
Colin Camerer, Teck-Hua Ho, and Juin-Kuan Chong, "A
Cognitive Hierarchy Theory of One-Shot Games: Some Preliminary Results"(various versions and
datasets under "Recent Research Papers" at http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~camerer/camerer.html)
Lecture notes for Economics 200C, Games and
Information (see especially pp. 1-13)(pdf)
Slides from Economics 109, Game Theory; good
introduction, but less detail than 200C lecture notes (pdf)
Lecture notes for Costa-Gomes, Crawford, and
Broseta, "Cognition and Behavior in Normal-Form Games" (pdf)
Lecture notes, manuscript, instructions, and
data for Costa-Gomes and Crawford, "Cognition and Behavior in
Two-Person Guessing Games" (link)
Lecture notes for Economics 207, Experimental
Economics (see especially pp. 15-18 on Beard and Beil, Management Science '94) (pdf)
Milgrom and Yildiz's lecture notes on the
Nash bargaining solution from a game theory course at MIT (pdf)
Nagore Iriberri's lecture notes on adaptive learning models (pdf);
Nagore's
survey paper on learning, useful background reading (pdf)
Lecture notes on dynamic analysis of Van Huyck
et al. experiments (pdf)
