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Lecture Notes

LEC # TOPICS SLIDES COURSE NOTES
Part I: Decision theory
1 Choice theory: a synopsis (PDF) (PDF)
2 Decision making under risk (PDF) (PDF)
3 Decision making under uncertainty (PDF) (PDF)
4 Attitudes towards risk (PDF) (PDF)
5 Attitudes towards risk: applications, stochastic dominance (PDF) (PDF)
6 Critiques of expected utility theory (PDF) (PDF)
Part II: Game theory
7 Rationalizability (PDF) (PDF)
8 Correlated and sequential equilibria (PDF) (PDF)
9 Reputation formation (PDF) (PDF)
10 Collusion under imperfect price information (PDF) (PDF)