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Popularized by movies such as "A Beautiful Mind," game theory is the mathematical modeling of strategic interaction among rational and irrational agents. How could you begin to model keyword auctions, and peer to peer file-sharing networks, without accounting for the incentives of the people using them? The course will provide the basics: representing games and strategies, the extensive form which computer scientists call game trees , Bayesian games modeling things like auctions , repeated and stochastic games, and more.
We'll include a variety of examples including classic games and a few applications. Week 1: Introduction and Overview -Introduction, overview, uses of game theory, some applications and examples, and formal definitions of: the normal form, payoffs, strategies, pure strategy Nash equilibrium, dominant strategies Week 2: Mixed-Strategy Nash Equilibrium -pure and mixed strategy Nash equilibria Week 3: Alternate Solution Concepts -Iterative removal of strictly dominated strategies, minimax strategies and the minimax theorem for zero-sum game, correlated equilibria Week 4: Extensive-Form Games -Perfect information games: trees, players assigned to nodes, payoffs, backward Induction, subgame perfect equilibrium, introduction to imperfect-information games, mixed versus behavioral strategies.
Week 5: Repeated Games -Repeated prisoners dilemma, finite and infinite repeated games, limited-average versus future-discounted reward, folk theorems, stochastic games and learning. Week 7: Coalitional Games -Transferable utility cooperative games, Shapley value, Core, applications.
Week 8: Final Exam -The description goes here. Taught by Matthew O. Jackson and Yoav Shoham.
Tags usa. Browse More Coursera Articles. Browse More Economics courses. All three of the professors present the material, but not in a way that is easy to understand. I mention this because there are no prerequisites required for the class.
Once the material is presented in this class, I found that searching via google and youtube found more meaningful examples, and were easier to learn from than the professors. One complaint I have about the class is Dr. I found him to be very dull, lacking energy, and using very complicated formulas and difficult-to-understand ideas in his explanations. It's almost as if he were teaching to everyone that has a PHD in the subject matter. Overall, this course is okay, but you would be better off searching for the information from other sources.
Was this review helpful to you? I was looking forward to this course - a lot. Random internet sources, including YouTube videos, were making it easier for me to understand some of the topics - but it was basically taking up too much of my time to constantly look for other sources.
I wish they would film another and better series of lectures for this course. Extremely poor presentation of the material. Look elsewhere. Presenters made many errors and often could not accurately verbalize hence conceptualize the material. Professor Jackson was top notch but the other presenters just did not measure up. I have no doubt that each presenter is an expert in his field, but with the exception of Professor Jackson they have a very limited understanding of how to present new material to adult learners.
I really wanted to like this class but found the variation in the lecture styles between the three prof's distracting. One was cool, one was interesting, and one was so bad he sucked every ounce of enthusiasm for the subject right out of me. The leverage in online courses should allow only the best presenters to teach. Shoham acted like he wanted to be anywhere but sharing his genius with a dullard like me. I have mixed feelings about this course.