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- Syllabus
- Get syllabus.
- Course Reserves (search under Dougherty; password: dougherty).
- Lectures
- Partial lecture notes: normal form games.
- Partial lecture notes: trust game.
- MIDTERM.
- Partial lecture notes: Repeated Games.
- Partial lecture notes: Spatial Voting (one dimension).
- Partial lecture notes: Pivotal Politics.
- Partial lecture notes: Optimal Classification Routine (in power point). Also available in html.
- Partial lecture notes: Spatial Voting (multiple dimensions).
- Partial lecture notes: Agricultural Appropriations Act.
- Lecture notes: Estimating Ideal Points in Two Dimensions (optimal classification).
- Partial lecture notes: Application: Presidential Election of 1824.
- Handouts and Relevant Links
- Cuban Missile Crisis: symmetric incomplete information game.
- Repeated Games. To understand the lectures on repeated games, three things will help:
- *Learn to use summation notation.
- *Understand the logic of geometric progressions.
- *Read your Dixit, Skeath, and Reiley text.
- Location of the Capital.
- Background information on the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787.
- Maps of the Election of 1824.
- Readings
- *Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal, 1997. Congress: A Political-Economic Theory of Roll Call Voting -- Chapter 2 (Preliminaries on how to estimate ideal points).
- Home Work Assignments
- Homework 1 (game theory).
- Answers to Homework 1.
- Homework 2 (step-good games).
- Answers to Homework 2.
- Homework 3 (repeated games).
- Answers to Homework 3.
- Homework 4 (spatial voting).
- Answers to Homework 4.
- Practice Problems
- For material prior to the midterm, I recomend the following questions from Dixit, Skeath, and Reiley, third edition. If you don't have the third edition, you can get the questions from the text. Password "dougherty". Check your answers by downloading the following zip file. It contains the answers in various Word files (one for each chapter).
- If you want some additional practice problems related to homework 1, you might try the following additional practice problems, then exchange answers with a friend to see if you have the same answers.
- Midterm Exam
- Review Sheet (for midterm).
- Final Exam
- Review Sheet (for final).
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