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[ 977PADMGATU22 ] IK Game Theory

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Workload Education level Study areas Responsible person Hours per week Coordinating university
3 ECTS M1 - Master's programme 1. year Economics Wolfgang Frimmel 1 hpw Johannes Kepler University Linz
Detailed information
Original study plan Master's programme Economic and Business Analytics 2025W
Learning Outcomes
Competences
Students are able to manually apply game-theoretic solution problems to strategic situations and understand the economic intuition behind equilibria.

Skills Knowledge
  • Apply game-theoretic solution concepts to strategic situations
  • Formulate strategic situations in normal-form or extensive-form games
  • Understand and explain the economic intuition behind equilibrium concepts for static and dynamic games of (in)complete information
  • Recall the basic ideas and assumtions of game-theoretic solution concepts
Apply the basic concepts of modelling simple strategic situations in games and apply adequate solution concepts to strategic problems in static and dynamic settings

Course Topics

  • Representation of games
  • Dominance and rationalizability
  • Nash equilibrium
  • Subgame perfekt Nash equilibrium
  • Repeated games
  • Bayesian games
  • Signalling games
Criteria for evaluation In total, students have the possibility to reach 120 points on all homework exercises and 50 points on tests in sum. A minimum of 50 percent for both homework exercises (60 points) and tests (25 points) are necessary to obtain a positive grade. Bonus points for more points on the homework exercises will transferred into bonus points and added to test points.

  • Test: two individual tests. Each test consists of practical questions (similar to those on homework exercises)
  • Homework exercises: there are 6 homeworks, whose solutions need to be presented an discussed in class

Synchronization of learning outcomes and assessments:

All learning outcomes are achieved with tests and homework exercises

Methods
  • Individual homework exercises
  • Presentation and joint discussion of solutions to the homework exercises
Language English
Study material
  • Homework exercises
  • Slides
  • Reading material:
    • Robert Gibbons, A Primer in Game Theory, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992
    • Martin Osborne, An Introduction to Game Theory, Oxford University Press, 2004
Changing subject? No
Further information Courses KS Game Theory and IK Game Theory are a closely integrated unit. The learning outcomes will be reached with both courses together.
Earlier variants They also cover the requirements of the curriculum (from - to)
977PADTGATU21: IK Game Theory (2021W-2022S)
On-site course
Maximum number of participants 40
Assignment procedure Assignment according to priority