This course is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking. Ideas such as dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, evolutionary stability, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, adverse selection, and signaling are discussed and applied to games played in class and to examples drawn from economics, politics, the movies, and elsewhere.

Textbook

《策略思维：商界、政界及日常生活中的策略竞争》，阿维纳什·迪克西特和巴里·奈尔伯夫著

Slides

1. 导言

2. 最优对策和纳什均衡

3. 经典博弈模型

4. 混合策略

5. 序贯博弈（一）

6. 序贯博弈（二）

Homework

Grading

Attendance: 20%

Problem sets: 10%

Final presentation: 70%