G601, IO I
Eric Rasmusen, [email protected]
31 August 2006
1- intro, game theory.
For one 75-minute session. Focuses on Nash
equilibrium, and defintiinos of equilibrium,
strategy, profile, etc.
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Readings
29 August, Tuesday. Game Theory Basics
Rasmusen: Preface, Introduction, Chapter 1.
Reader 1. Philip Straffin, ``The Prisoner's
Dilemma,'' UMAP Journal. 1: 101-103 (1980).
Reader 2. Albert Tucker, ``A Two-Person Dilemma,''
unpublished notes (May 1950).
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Handouts
• “Write on an 8x11 Piece of Paper”
• HTML Assignment
• Syllabus
• Cardstock and magic marker
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Write on an 8x11 Piece of Paper
Your name:
Eric Rasmusen
What you would like me to call you:
Professor, Professor Rasmusen
Your Department and Status:
Bus Econ, Prof.
Year You Arrived at IU:
1992
Theory or Empirics?
--- Both
Country of Origin:
USA
Other Courses this semester: None
Last Econometrics Course:
Advanced Microeconometrics (McFadden)
Last Game Theory Course:
auctions and matching (Milgrom, Roth)
Econometrics programs you have used:
STATA, Excel
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Assignments
Midterm (30 points). Final (70 points). Problem sets
and small "how-to" projects (check-, check, check+) on
HTML, on Latex, on presenting data, and on writing up
regressions. Performance on these can affect your grade
a notch or two. You may work on the problem sets and
how-to assignments together. Each person will hand in
his own how-to assignment. For the problem sets,
however, you *must* turn in your problem sets as one for
each two-person group. I want you to talk about the
problems together. Groups may talk with other groups,
too. You may either form your own group, or email me by
Saturday saying you'd prefer a random assignment to a
group (this is particularly appropriate if you don't know
anybody else in the class).
Grades: final 70 points, midterm 30 points, other stuff: +, -,
0, raise or lower 1 or 2 notches.
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The Reader
The readings from The Games and
Information Reader are optional, and I may or
may not have time to talk about them in class.
Most of them are fun and useful, however. Read
them next summer if you don't read them this
fall. Reading them this fall may be helpful
encouragement for you as doctoral students in
the middle of taking courses, however, since
they point ahead to thesis writing.
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HTML Assignment for Oncourse Profile
Write an HTML webpage with at least the
following elements:
1. A picture of yourself
2. A link to a sample of your writing.
3. Contact information
4. The date
5. A link to some webpage
6. A link to the G604 webpage.
7. The web address of your page.
8. Some text boldfaced, some in italics, and7
some that is centered.
• PS 1: Due next Tuesday. I will check it off,
look at a few, hand out unavailable
solutions.
HTML Assignment: Due Saturday 5pm.
Photos on Thursday. Or bring your own.
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The Prisoner’s Dilemma
Table 1.2
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Definitions
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Schelling’s Focal Points
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The Battle of the Sexes
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Write on an 8x11 Piece
of Paper
Your name:
What you would like me to call you:
Your Department and Status:
Year You Arrived at IU:
Theory or Empirics?
Country of Origin:
Other Courses this semester:
Last Econometrics Course:
Last Game Theory Course:
Econometrics programs you have used:
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Course Website
A link to the course website
http://www.rasmusen.org/g601/0.g601.htm
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