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Microeconomics 2 (ECO-CO-MICRO2)

ECO-CO-MICRO2


Department ECO
Course category ECO Compulsory courses
Course type Course
Academic year 2023-2024
Term BLOCK 2
Credits 1 (EUI Economics Department)
Professors
  • Prof. Oezlem Bedre-Defolie (EUI)
Contact Simonsen, Sarah
Sessions

16/11/2023 11:00-12:30 @ Seminar Room 3rd Floor,V. la Fonte

16/11/2023 13:30-15:00 @ Seminar Room 3rd Floor,V. la Fonte

23/11/2023 13:30-15:00 @ Seminar Room 3rd Floor,V. la Fonte

24/11/2023 9:00-10:30 @ Seminar Room 3rd Floor,V. la Fonte

24/11/2023 11:00-12:30 @ Seminar Room 3rd Floor,V. la Fonte

30/11/2023 11:00-12:30 @ Conference Room, Villa la Fonte

01/12/2023 9:00-10:30 @ Seminar Room 3rd Floor,V. la Fonte

01/12/2023 13:30-15:00 @ Seminar Room 3rd Floor,V. la Fonte

06/12/2023 11:00-12:30 @ Seminar Room 3rd Floor,V. la Fonte

07/12/2023 11:00-12:30 @ Seminar Room 3rd Floor,V. la Fonte

07/12/2023 13:30-15:00 @ Seminar Room 3rd Floor,V. la Fonte

12/12/2023 11:00-12:30 @ Seminar Room 3rd Floor,V. la Fonte

15/12/2023 13:30-15:00 @ Seminar Room 3rd Floor,V. la Fonte

18/12/2023 9:00-10:30 @ Seminar Room 3, Badia Fiesolana

19/12/2023 11:00-12:30 @ Seminar Room 3, Badia Fiesolana

20/12/2023 11:00-12:30 @ Outside EUI premises

22/12/2023 11:00-12:30 @ Outside EUI premises

08/01/2024 9:00-10:30 @ Seminar Room 3rd Floor,V. la Fonte

08/01/2024 13:00-14:30 @ Seminar Room 3rd Floor,V. la Fonte

12/01/2024 13:30-15:00 @ Seminar Room 3rd Floor,V. la Fonte

16/01/2024 11:00-12:30 @ Seminar Room 3rd Floor,V. la Fonte

Purpose

Prerequisites. You are expected to be familiar with the material covered in a standard intermediate microeconomics course (as in Varian, Intermediate Microeconomics (1999)).

Purpose: This course aims to develop you understanding of fundamental concepts and frameworks of game theory starting from static games and ending with dynamic moral hazard. The course aims to equip you with foundations of game theory and interpretation of main concepts, which are essential tools to study a rich set of environments involving strategic interactions among various agents. The course aims to teach you how to setup problems in these complex environments as games and solve for equilibria of these games to develop reasonable predictions as equilibrium outcomes in such environments. For instance, to study R&D, quality, and pricing decisions of competing firms, to develop optimal investment strategies facing uncertainty, to formulate best mechanism to sell an object to buyers with unknown valuations, to predict optimal bidding behavior in different forms of auctions, to study supply contract bargaining between suppliers and retailers, and more.

Description

Description: This is a graduate level game theory course that covers topics of Static Games, Auctions, Dynamic Games, Repeated Games, Uncertainty, Bayesian Games, Mechanism Design and Dynamic Moral Hazard. This is a 20-hours course. We will be using mainly two textbooks Osborn and Rubinstein, A Course in Game Theory, and Fudenberg and Tirole, Game Theory. The course is graded based on the final exam. There will be four problem sets that are not for credit, but several will be graded to provide feedback, and the answers will be reviewed in the TA sessions. The questions on the final exam will be variations of problems from the problem sets. Office hours will be set closer to the start of the course.

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