Teaching

Polisci 153 - Strategy: An Introduction to Game Theory

• Cooperation, coordination and competition

• Credibility and commitment

• Bargaining

• Long term relationships: cheating and punishing

• Uncertain motivations, moral hazard, and adverse selection

• Deception, signaling, and reputation

Math Camp Background Material in Formal Theory

• Deterministic, risky and uncertain choice

• Knowledge and information

• Preference and information aggregation

Polisci 356a - Formal Theory I

• Complete and perfect information game theory

• Applications: The Hoteling model, contest theory, the tragedy of the commons

• Applications: Probabilistic voting, the citizen candidate model

• Applications: Collective action problems, strategic substitutes and complements

• Bargaining theory, repeated games, timing games

• Evolutionary games and dynamics

• Bounded rationality, exotic preferences, and non-equilibrium models

Polisci 356b - Formal Theory II

• Asymmetric information game theory

• Purification, the email game, global games, signaling

• Applications: strategic voting, mass action, cheap talk, reputation

• Games with hidden actions

• Principal-agent theory, political accountability

• Psychological games, optimal experimentation, and model uncertainty

• Biased belief updating: confirmation bias and motivated reasoning