G601, IO I

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• G601, IO I
• Eric Rasmusen, erasmuse_at_indiana.edu
• 31 August 2006
• 1- intro, game theory.
• For one 75-minute session. Focuses on Nash
  equilibrium, and defintiinos of equilibrium,
  strategy, profile, etc.

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Readings

29 August, Tuesday. Game Theory Basics Rasmusen
Preface, Introduction, Chapter 1. Reader 1.
Philip Straffin, The Prisoner's Dilemma,'' UMAP
Journal. 1 101-103 (1980). Reader 2. Albert
Tucker, A Two-Person Dilemma,'' unpublished
notes (May 1950).
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Handouts

• Write on an 8x11 Piece of Paper
• HTML Assignment
• Syllabus
• Cardstock and magic marker

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Write on an 8x11 Piece of Paper

• Your name Eric Rasmusen
• What you would like me to call you Professor,
  Professor Rasmusen
• Your Department and Status Bus Econ, Prof.
• Year You Arrived at IU 1992
• Theory or Empirics? --- Both
• Country of Origin USA
• Other Courses this semester None
• Last Econometrics Course Advanced
  Microeconometrics (McFadden)
• Last Game Theory Course auctions and matching
  (Milgrom, Roth)
• Econometrics programs you have used STATA,
  Excel

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Assignments

• Midterm (30 points). Final (70 points).
  Problem sets and small "how-to" projects (check-,
  check, check) on HTML, on Latex, on presenting
  data, and on writing up regressions. Performance
  on these can affect your grade a notch or two.
  You may work on the problem sets and how-to
  assignments together. Each person will hand in
  his own how-to assignment. For the problem sets,
  however, you must turn in your problem sets as
  one for each two-person group. I want you to talk
  about the problems together. Groups may talk with
  other groups, too. You may either form your own
  group, or email me by Saturday saying you'd
  prefer a random assignment to a group (this is
  particularly appropriate if you don't know
  anybody else in the class).
• Grades final 70 points, midterm 30 points, other
  stuff , -, 0, raise or lower 1 or 2 notches.

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The Reader

• The readings from The Games and Information
  Reader are optional, and I may or may not have
  time to talk about them in class. Most of them
  are fun and useful, however. Read them next
  summer if you don't read them this fall. Reading
  them this fall may be helpful encouragement for
  you as doctoral students in the middle of taking
  courses, however, since they point ahead to
  thesis writing.

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HTML Assignment for Oncourse Profile

• Write an HTML webpage with at least the
  following elements
• 1. A picture of yourself
• 2. A link to a sample of your writing.
• 3. Contact information
• 4. The date
• 5. A link to some webpage
• 6. A link to the G604 webpage.
• 7. The web address of your page.
• 8. Some text boldfaced, some in italics, and
  some that is centered.

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• PS 1 Due next Tuesday. I will check it off, look
  at a few, hand out unavailable solutions.
• HTML Assignment Due Saturday 5pm.
• Photos on Thursday. Or bring your own.

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The Prisoners Dilemma
Table 1.2
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Definitions

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Schellings Focal Points

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The Battle of the Sexes
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Write on an 8x11 Piece of Paper

• Your name
• What you would like me to call you
• Your Department and Status
• Year You Arrived at IU
• Theory or Empirics?
• Country of Origin
• Other Courses this semester
• Last Econometrics Course
• Last Game Theory Course
• Econometrics programs you have used

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Course Website

• A link to the course website
• http//www.rasmusen.org/g601/0.g601.htm