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