For students:

Advanced Microeconomics 3 (Game Theory, 5 cr)

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Code:
ECON-L2300
Field:
Microeconomics
Targets:
Research Master's students PhD students
Organiser:
Aalto University
Instructor:
Pauli Murto
Period:
Period 3
Format:
Lecture
Method:
Contact teaching
Venue:
Economicum building
Enrollment:
Sisu How to enroll?

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Content

  • Strategic form games: pure and mixed strategies, dominant and dominated strate-gies, rationalizable strategies, Nash equilibrium
  • Extensive form games: sequential rationality, backward induction, sub-game per-fect equilibrium, sequential equilibrium
  • Dynamic games of complete information: bargaining games, repeated games
  • Games of incomplete information: Bayesian Nash equilibrium, perfect Bayesian equilibrium

Teaching

  • Completion method: contact teaching
    • Streaming will be only available to the FDPE students, for more infromation please contact Jenni Rytkonen, jenni.rytkonen [at] aalto.fi
  • Schedule: can be found in Sisu
  • Study materials: can be found in MyCourses
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Please register for the course in the Aalto Sisu with your Aalto username. Further instructions can be found here.

University-specific instructions

Aalto University Students
  • Code: ECON-L2300
  • Target groups: PhD / rMSc
  • Credit points: 5
Hanken Students
  • Code: 26047
  • Target groups: PhD / rMSc
  • Credit points: 5
  • Credit transfer: apply for substitution in Sisu

Further instructions can be found here.

University of Helsinki Students

  • Code: ECOM-R316 (rMSc) / DPE-9316 (PhD)

  • Target groups: PhD / rMSc

  • Credit points: 5

  • Credit transfer: apply for substitution in Sisu

Further instructions can be found here.

FDPE Students Students

  • Target groups: PhD

  • Credit points: please check your curriculum

  • Credit transfer: please apply for credit transfer according to your home university's procedures

Further instructions can be found here.

Learning outcomes

The students should become familiar with the central concepts of non-cooperative game theory and they should learn how to apply those in microeconomic applications. After this course they should be able to read research articles that use game theory as the method of analysis.