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Instructors: Dr. Sebastian Köhler
Event type:
Seminar
Org-unit: Politics, Administration & International Relations
Displayed in timetable as:
Entsch. u. Spielth.
Hours per week:
3
Credits:
6,0
Note: In your exam regulations, differing credits may have been specified.
Location:
Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
5 | 35
Priority scheme: Standard-Priorisierung
Course content:
Game Theory is a rational choice based approach used to study strategic decision-making in the social sciences. Strategic decision-making implies that the actors take individual decisions while taking each others' actions into account. The course introduces fundamental concepts of rational choice and game theory. In particular, we will discuss utility maximization and expected utility theory, static and dynamic games of complete information, static and dynamic games of incomplete information and the appropriate solution concepts. The class will contain interactive elements such as experiments to help understand game-theoretic models more intuitively. Every topic will be accompanied by a discussion of applications in political science and international relations.
Educational objective:
After successful completion of the course, students will be able to
- understand the rational choice theory of decision-making
- understand fundamental concepts of game theory, such as Nash equilibrium
- solve standard games
- apply game-theoretic reasoning to political phenomena
- use games as an analytic tool to understand real-world processes
Further information about the exams:
Written exam (90 minutes)
Admitted Aids:
- Dictionary English-German
Mandatory literature:
- Dixit, Avinash K., and Barry J. Nalebuff. 2008. The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist’s Guide to Success in Business and Life. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
- Fiorina, Morris P. 1975. “Formal Models in Political Science.” American Journal of Political Science 19 (1): 133–59.
- Humphreys, Macartan. 2016. Political Games. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
- Poundstone, William. 1993. Prisoner’s Dilemma: John Von Neumann, Game Theory and the Puzzle of the Bomb. New York: Anchor Books.
- Shepsle, Kenneth A. 2010. Analyzing Politics: Rationality, Behavior, and Institutions. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
- Tadelis, Steven. 2013. Game Theory: An Introduction. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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