Games & Strategic Behavior

Catalog description

This course provides an introduction to game theory -- the formal study of strategic situations -- and its applications.  The course will cover the basic analysis of simultaneous and sequential move games with perfect and imperfect information.  This material will be followed by a number of applications, such as price competition, election competition among political candidates, and civil unrest, which illustrate how the use of game theory can help us to improve our understanding of strategic behavior in economic, political, and social situations.