Economics 209A. Game Theory. Mon 10:10am-noon

Professor Yuliy Sannikov, sannikov@econ.berkeley.edu

593 Evans Hall

Office hours: Mon and Thu 2-3pm

Syllabus

Lecture Notes

1. Introduction, Games in Normal Form, Auctions

2. Extensive-Form Games, Sequential Equilibrium

3. Myerson (1981), Optimal Auctions

4. Nash Bargaining

5. Rubinstein Notes, In-Class Exercises, Geometric Derivation

6. Bolton and Scharfstein

7. Costly State Verification

8. Agency Problems, Screening and Increasing Credit Lines

9. Mailath/Leland and Pyle Exercise and Solution

10. Morris and Shin (1998)

11. Feinberg and Skrzypacz (2005)

12. Abreu, Pearce and Stacchetti (1990)

13. Fudenberg, Levine and Maskin (1994)

14. Very Informal Stochastic Calculus

15. Continuous-Time Games (Sannikov, 2005)

16. Reputation: Kreps and Wilson (1982)

Problem Sets and Solutions

Problem Set 1, Solutions

Problem Set 2, Solutions & Comments

Problem Set 3, Hints, Solutions

Problem Set 4, Hints, Solutions

Problem Set 5, Hints, Solutions

Problem Set 6, Solutions

Presentations

9/26/05 Biswo Poudel: Signaling with a Continuum of Types (Mailath, 1987)

10/31/05 Asaf Plan: Abreu, Pearce and Stacchetti (1986)

11/21/05 Day Manoli: Cho and Kreps (1987) (Updated)

Final Exam: Monday 12/19/05 8-11am, 639 Evans