Request to establish ECON 6206 (Game Theory and Experiments)

Date: May 25, 2009
To: Belk College of Business
From: Julie Putnam, Administrative Assistant to Faculty Governance
Approved On: May 7, 2009
Implementation Date: 2009

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ECON 6206. Game Theory and Experiments. (3) Prerequisite: permission of the graduate program coordinator. The focus of this course will be on game theoretic analysis and the experimental methodology which can be used to test game theoretic models. The primary topics in game theory covered will be static games with complete information, dynamic games with complete information, static games with incomplete information, and dynamic games with incomplete information. Some topics will be introduced by way of an economic experiment, and the experiment will be followed by a rigorous analysis of the game theoretic solution to the game. The latter part of the course will focus on how to design economic experiments as a means of testing the predictions of game theoretic models. (Spring)