15754 - Game Theory

Academic Year 2009/2010

  • Docente: Tito Pietra
  • Credits: 4
  • SSD: SECS-P/01
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Law and Economics (cod. 0899)

Course contents

1. Normal form games

2. Dominant strategies

3. Nash equilibria

4. Extensive form games

5. Subgame perfect equilibria

6. Infinitely repeated games

7. Extensive form games with imperfect information

8. Extensive form games with incomplete information: Auctions

Readings/Bibliography

A reference textbook is

Gibson, R., Teoria dei Giochi, Il Mulino 1992.

Two nice books supplementing it are

Other material (slides, papers, examples, etc.) areon my webpage, http://www2.dse.unibo.it/pietra/.  They are  part of the program.

Assessment methods

The course Game Theory is part of two different classes

  1. 32346 - DIRITTO PENALE E STRATEGIE ECONOMICHE (CLAMED) which also includes DIRITTO PENALE DELL'ECONOMIA (Responsabile didattico: Prof. N. Mazzacuva)
  2. 54991 - ECONOMIA (CLAMDA) which also includes “ECONOMETRIA APPLICATA PER L'IMPRESA” and “ECONOMIA DELL'IMPRESA” (Responsabile didattico: Prof. L. Franzoni).

Check with the Responsabile didattico of your class for the general  rules which apply to the class.

At the end of my course, there will be a 3 hours, written exam.

 

Office hours

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