- Docente: Andrea Mattozzi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: SECS-P/01
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Economics (cod. 8408)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student knows how to identify environments with strategic interaction and to use the formal language of game theory. He/she is able to recognize the major strategic ingredients and to predict behavior and outcomes in both real and abstract games. He/she understands the role of information and of dynamics in strategic interaction environments.
Course contents
1. Games in normal form
2. Games in extensive form
3. Nash equilibrium
4. Refinement of Nash Equilibrium
5. Games of incomplete information
6. Mechanism design
7. Signaling models
Readings/Bibliography
Selected chapters from
Microeconomic Theory, Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston and Jerry R. Green, Oxford University press
A Primer in Game Theory, Robert Gibbons, Pearson
Assessment methods
Written, closed book exam
The mark scale is as follows:
<18 failed
18-23 sufficient
24-27 good
28-30 excellent
30 e lode distinction
Teaching tools
Lecture Slides
Office hours
See the website of Andrea Mattozzi