EC-460 Game Theory
This course introduces students to the foundations of game theory using applications from economics and everyday decision-making. The course examines the common strategic elements of interactions between consumers and producers, governments and citizens, politicians and their constituencies, countries and their trading partners, and various other participants in social relationships. The course provides a theoretical framework for modeling strategic interaction, beginning with the development of the concept of a Nash equilibrium, reputation, signaling, collective-action problems, and voting procedures and strategies. Normally offered every year.
Prerequisite
Student has completed any of the following course(s) EC 101 - Applied Microeconomics, EC 103 - Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems, EC H101 - Honors Applied Microeconomics, EC H103 - Honors Data & Social Problems
Offered
Spring