Micro Economics Theory B Tel Aviv 2005 Ariel Rubinstein

Micro Economic Theory B (2004-5)
Ariel Rubinstein 

The exam and a solution are posted.

TAM V'KIMAAT NISHLAM.

HAG SAMEACH 

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Lecturer Ariel Rubinstein    (office hour-please call 640-9601 to coordinate)
Teaching Assistants The teaching assistants will hold two separate sessions where they will go through the problem sets.  You will be asked to attend one of the two classes. 

Gabi Gajer    and Itay Fainmesser 
Problem Sets It is extremely important that you submit all problem sets even though it is not a mandatory requirement.
Administrative problems Anna Ayach 
Date
Class Mon 18:15-19:45,

Wed 08:30-10:00

 Economics 010

Economics 010
Hashlama  (in case we will need it) Fri    08:30-10:00 Economics 001
Targil (attend one of the two) Gabi: Wed 18-20

Itai:  Mon 16-18 (for studnets with better math background)

 Economics 009 

Economics 011
Books

The Books
Martin Osborne and Ariel Rubinstein:  A Course in Game Theory, MIT Press, 1994
David Kreps:  A Course in Microeconmic Theory, Princeton University Press, 1990
Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, Jerry R. Green:  Microeconomic Theory, Oxford Univ Press, 1995.

Course Material A student is required to hold an e-mail address .  All material for the course will be posted on the web (and will not be distributed in class).

Downloading lecture notes and problems sets requires a "user name" and a password which will be given to students in the class and should not be transferred to other students!!
Exam June 10
Students list   Please update your e-mail address at  http://www.ims.tau.ac.il/tal/

For registration send an e-mail to listserv@post.tau.ac.il  with the line:  

subscribe eco1011-4101-01@listserv.tau.ac.il Real Name

Plan of the course

In most of the course (about 2/3 we study game theory.  In the rest of the course we will discuss economics of information.

# Date Topic Lecture Notes Solution
 1 21/2 Strategic Reasoning   G01 sol
 2 23/2 Nash Equilibrium       
 3 28/2 Zero Sum Games G02 sol
 4 2/3 Bayesian Games G03 sol 
 5 7/3 Bayesian Games-examples    
 6 9/3 Mixed startegies G04 sol 
 7 11/3 The Jury Example  
 8 14/3 Correlated Equilibrium  
 9 30/3 Rationalizability G05 sol 
 10 4/4 Extensive Game G06 sol 
 11 6/4 Subgame Prefect Equilibrium
12 8/4 Subgame Prefect Equilibrium
13 11/4 Bargaining G08 sol
14 13/4 Bargaining
15 15/4 Forward Induction G07 sol
16 18/4 Repeated Games
17 20/4 Repeated Games
18 16/5 Repeated Games problem set 9 sol
19 18/5 Incomeplete Information
20 23/5 Incomeplete Information problem set 10 sol
21 25/5 Sequential equilibrium
22 30/5 SPB equilibrium
23 1/6 Signalling Model problem set 11 sol

Special tasks
Before Lecture Task Links