Lecture notes

 The course materials for the 1st to the 11th lectures are mainly based on the 
 following textbook.
 Steven Tadelis (2012)  Game Theory: An Introduction, Princeton University Press.

 The course material for the 12th and the 13th lectures are based on the following 
 textbook.
 Campbell (2006) Incentives: Motivation and the Economics of Information:
 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press.

 I put the materials on the web.

Announcement (and what we did). 

 October 6: Guidance and "Preliminaries of Static Games" (until 37th slide).
 October 6: From October 13, TA session holds at the 2nd room in the building
 of Law and Economics, that is, the room is the same with that on the lecture.
 October 7: "Preliminaries of Static Games" and "Pinning Down Beliefs: Nash
  Equilibrium" (until the 62nd slide).
 October 11: The material for the 1st TA session is now available.
 October 13: "Pinning Down Beliefs: Nash Equilibrium" and "Mixed Strategy"
 (until the 13th slide).
 October 14: "Mixed Strategy" and "Bayesian Games" (until the 25th slide).
 Supplementary slide (for advanced students).
 October 18: The material for the 2nd TA session is now available.
 October 20: "Bayesian Games" and "Auctions and competitive bidding" (until 
 the 19th slide). Caveat: You do not need to check the detailed calculation of 
 First-price auction (from the 19th to 25th slides) if you are an undergraduate 
 student.
 October 21: "Preliminaries of Dynamic Games"
 Because the slide of "Preliminaries of Dynamic Games" contained typos on the 
 3rd and the 4th pages, I put a revised version of the slide.  
 I have already informed this matter to you in the class.
 October 25: I have put the homework (deadline: November 6, 2016).
 We do not study "Auctions and competitive bidding" from the 26th slide to the  
 end in the class. Instead, the next week, I will assign "The common values case" 
 in the slide as a homework. 
 October 27: The material for the 3rd TA session is now available.
 October 27: "Credibility and Sequential Rationality"
 Please check the difference between the concepts of Nash equilibrium (NE) and
 subgame perfect Nash equilibrium (SPNE).
 Note: The lecture on October 28 is cancelled.
 November 10: "Multistage Games"
 Please check how stage multiplicity changes equilibrium outcomes by using 
 the lecture slide.
 I put the answer key of the homework (the 4th TA session) assigned on October.
 Notice 1: On November 11, I teach "Credibility and Sequential Rationality"
 again because some students do not seem to understand Backward induction.
 Due to the schedule change, we may not learn "Moral Hazard". 
 Notice 2: On November 17, I assign a new homework to recover the score 
 of the homework assigned on October. I inform the score of the old homework
 on November 17. You can determine whether to submit the answer sheet for the  
 new homework. Your score of the "homework" is based on the highest score
 between the two scores.
 November 11: We learned "Credibility and Sequential Rationality" again.
 I used this pdf file to explain how osipp-lec2-T4-5.pdf was useful to solve 
 Question 3 in the old homework. 
 We learn "Repeated Games" on November 17.
 November 15: The material for the 4th TA session is now available.
 November 16 (21:20): The new homework is now available.
 The deadline is mentioned in the file.
 As informed on November 10, I have assigned a new homework to recover the
 score of the homework assigned on October. I inform the score of the old 
 homework on November 17. You can determine whether to submit the answer 
 sheet for the new homework. Your score of the "homework" is based on the
 highest score between the two scores.
 November 17 We learned "Repeated Games" except The Folk Theorem.
 Tomorrow, we learn "Sequential Rationality with Incomplete Information."
 November 18 We learned "Sequential Rationality with Incomplete Information" 
 except The slides from `Strengthening the wPBE concept.'
 Note that the deadline of the New Homework is 15:00 on 24th of November.
 On November 24, we learn "Adverse Selection and Signaling."
 November 23: The material for the 5th TA session is now available.
 November 24 We learned "Adverse Selection" and some part of "Signaling". 
 Tomorrow, we continue to learn the rest of "Signaling". If possible, we learn 
 "Screening".
 November 25 We learned "Signaling". We did not learn "Screening". 
 The lecture on December 1 is a review session. We do not learn any new topic. 
 The final exam holds on December 2. You can use paper-based materials in the exam.  
 November 29 For a student who told me that he/she cannot participate the exam 
 on December 2 due to his/her task, I assigned a "special" exam on November 28.  
 This is "the special exam". 
 This is a useful material for you to prepare for solving the final exam. 
 Please bring it on December 1.
 December 1 We had "Review session." Hope you do a good job tomorrow.

The slides for the lectures

 Schedule (pdf) (Sep 30)

 Preliminaries of Static Games (pdf) (Sep 30)
 Pinning Down Beliefs: Nash Equilibrium (pdf) (Sep 30)
 Mixed Strategies (pdf) (Sep 30)
 Bayesian Games (pdf) (Sep 30)
 Auctions and Competitive Bidding (pdf) (Sep 30; revised Oct 21)
 Preliminaries of Dynamic Games (pdf) (Sep 30; revised Oct 21)
 Credibility and Sequential Rationality (pdf) (Sep 30)
 Multistage Games (pdf) (Sep 30)
 Repeated Games (pdf) (Sep 30)
 Sequential Rationality with Incomplete Information (pdf) (Sep 30)
 Adverse Selection and Signaling (pdf) (Sep 30)
 Screening and Moral Hazard (pdf) (Oct 5)

 Proof of Zelmelo's Theorem (pdf) (Oct 25)