Game Theory - part I

2.00 crédits

15.0 h

Langue
d'enseignement

Anglais

Thèmes abordés

Game theory is a bag of analytical tools designed to help us to undestand the phenoma that we observe wen decision makers interact.

Contenu

Topics in Game Theory
Part A Network Science and Economics

Representing, Measuring and Analyzing Networks
Learning and Diffusion on Networks
Games and Behavior on Networks
Game-Theoretic Modeling of Network Formation

Part B Market Design and Matching

The Basic Matching Model
The Medical Match
Assignment Markets
School Allocation
Course Allocation
Kidney Exchange

Méthodes d'enseignement

The course consists of lectures. The topics will be introduced during the lectures.
Compulsory homeworks will be assigned to students. Reading assignments are also possible.

Modes d'évaluation
des acquis des étudiants

Homework (50%) + Presentation of a research article (50%)

Ressources
en ligne

Slides, homeworks, exercises, compulsory readings will be available on the course webpage on Moodle UCL (http://moodleucl.uclouvain.be/).

Bibliographie

Social and economic networks by Matthew O. Jackson, Princeton University Press (2008).
Connections by Sanjeev Goyal, Princeton University Press (2007).
Network science by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Cambridge University Press (2016).
The Oxford handbook of the economics of networks edited byYann Bramoullé, Andrea Galeotti and Brian W. Rogers, Oxford University Press (2016).
Market design: auctions and matching, by Guillaume Haeringer, MIT Press (2018).

Faculté ou entité
en charge

ECON

Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Intitulé du programme

Sigle

Crédits

Prérequis

Acquis
d'apprentissage

Master [120] en sciences économiques, orientation économétrie

ETRI2M