ECON 404 - Games and Economics
Administrative details
Date and location: Monday and Wednesday 2.00pm - 3.50pm, KAP 156
Office hours: Wednesdays 4.00pm – 5.30pm and by appointment; KAP 334A
Teaching Assistant: Saurabh Singhal, email: singhals@usc.edu
Office hours of Teaching Assistant: T.B.A.
Books
Required book
Game Theory for Applied Economists, Robert Gibbons, Princeton University Press (1992)
Recommended books
Game Theory, Drew Fudenberg and Jean Tirole, MIT Press (1992)
Markets, Games and Strategic Behavior, Charles Holt, Addison Wesley (2006)
Strategy, Joel Watson, WW Norton (2007)
Syllabus
The syllabus (in PDF version) can be found here
Problem sets, reading material and other information
This section should be checked regularly
Midterm date: Wednesday, October 14 from 2pm to 3.30pm
Problem Sets
- Problem Set 1 (due date: Wednesday, September 23)
Sketch of solutions for Problem Set 1
- Problem Set 2 (due date: Wednesday, September 30)
Sketch of solutions for Problem Set 2
- Problem Set 3 (due date: Wednesday, October 7)
Sketch of solutions for Problem Set 3
- Problem Set 4 (due date: Wednesday, November 4)
Sketch of solutions for Problem Set 4
- Problem Set 5 (due date: Monday, November 23)
Practice exercises for the Midterm