55173 - Theory of Games and Negotiations

Academic Year 2011/2012

  • Docente: Piero Pasotti
  • Credits: 4
  • SSD: SECS-P/01
  • Language: English
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (cod. 0906)

Learning outcomes

The aim of the cours is to provide the students with the knowledge of basic equilibrium concepts and the ability to apply this concepts to case studies. At the end of the course the student should: - know the basic solution concepts for non-cooperative games; - be able to apply these concepts to specific games; - be able to apply these concepts to the analisys of firms' strategic behaviour.

Readings/Bibliography

1) Roy Gardner (2003), Games For Business and Economics, 2nd Edition, John Wiley & Sons (Chapters  1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11)

Assessment methods

Written examination.

Office hours

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