ECON 6634 - Strategic Decision Making

Game theory uses models to analyze conflict and cooperation between rational decision-making agents. It has applications across a wide variety of areas, including the analysis of sports tactics and strategies, statistical decision theory, economics and business (auctions, pricing, bargaining), biology (evolution, signaling behavior, fighting behavior), political science (stability of government, military strategy), and philosophy (ethics, morality, and social norms). This course introduces game theory and its applications and its associated analytical tools. 3 credits.