G570: ``Thinking Strategically''

Each web page linked below has the main topics for the session, assigned readings, extra materials, and key terms. Each also has a ``Central Idea'', the big idea for the day, and an ``Antithesis'', an example of a wrong or oversimplistic idea one might have in the absence of taking this class.

• Instructor: Professor Eric Rasmusen. Office phone: 855-9219. Office address: BU 456. [email protected].
• Web: http://pacioli.bus.indiana.edu/erasmuse/g570/g570.htm.
• Lecture room: BU 103.
• Lecture times: Tuesday and Thursday, 1:00-2:15.
• Section number: 5058.

1. 3/5 Decision Trees and Game Trees. DN 1, DN 2, Nobel--Nash.

2. 3/7 Simultaneous-Move Games. DN 3.

   3/11-3/15 SPRING BREAK

3. 3/19 Cartel Stability. Kleit.

4. 3/21 Creating Cooperation. DN 4, Koselka.

5. 3/26 Commitment. DN 5, Quiz 1.

6. 3/28 Credibility . DN 6.

7. 4/2 Strategic Complements and Substitutes. Besanko, Dranove, and Shanley.

8. 4/4 Signalling. McMillan pp. 65-75, Spence materials.

9. 4/9 Price Discrimination. Deneckere, Quiz 2.

10. 4/11 Mixed Strategies. DN 7.

11. 4/16 Incentives for Effort and Truth. DN 12.

12. 4/18 Bargaining. DN 11, Krishna.

13. 4/23 Auctions. DN 12: 319-25. McMillan pp. 133-149, Vickrey.

14. 4/25 Internet Auction Design. Rasmusen, Roth and Ockenfels.

Return to the Thinking Strategically Home Page, at URL: http: //pacioli.bus.indiana.edu/erasmuse/g570/g570.htm.