Degree Level Course
Game Theory and Strategy
- Learn how to think of social and economic aspects of life via mathematical models. - Learn how game theory is applied to think about problems in information economy.
Course ID: BSMS4023
Course Credits: 4
Course Type: Elective
Pre-requisites: None
Course structure & Assessments
For details of standard course structure and assessments, visit Academics page.
| WEEK 1 | Introduction and General Principles |
| WEEK 2 | Games with Simultaneous Moves I |
| WEEK 3 | Games with Simultaneous Move II |
| WEEK 4 | Games with Sequential Moves |
| WEEK 5 | Combining Sequential and Simultaneous Moves and Mixed Strategies |
| WEEK 6 | Evolutionary game Theory |
| WEEK 7 | Matching Problem, Gale-Shapley Algorithm |
| WEEK 8 | Voting, Cascades, and Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem |
| WEEK 9 | Cooperative Games, Shapley Values |
| WEEK 10 | Fair Division, Bankruptcy Problems |
| WEEK 11 | Auctions |
| WEEK 12 | Network Effects |
Prescribed Books
The following are the suggested books for the course:
Games of Strategy by Avinash Dixit and Susan Skeath. W.W. Norton & Company Insights into Game Theory: An Alternative Mathematical Experience by Ein-Ya Gura, and Michael Maschler. Cambridge University Press.
Networks, Crowds and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World by David Easley, and Jon Kleinberg. Cambridge University Press.