List of Topics for Class Presentations

SUGGESTED TOPICS FOR CLASS PRESENTATIONS

1. Nash equilibrium existence with examples to oligopoly games

2. Correlated equilibrium and applications

3. Sequential equilibrium in Imperfect information extensive form games

4. Supermodular games with applications (oligopoly games, etc.)

5. Congestion games in networks (Nash vs. Pareto efficient outcomes, price of anarchy, etc.)

6. Asymmetric Information: principal-agent model with moral hazard (optimal incentives in organizations)

7. Asymmetric Information: principal-agent model with adverse selection (optimal incentives in organizations)

8. Auctions under complete and incomplete information

9. Coalitional games: stability in cartels

10. Coalitional games: mergers profitability in oligopolistic markets

11. Coalitional games and International Environmental Agreements

12. Evolutionary stability and the replicator dynamics (applications: migration, biology, etc.)

13. Voting games:  electoral competition and political parties

14. Mechanism design and Vickrey.Clark-Groove mechanisms with applications

15. Asymmetric Information: the market for lemons, consumers’ deception

16. Experimental games and bounded rationality

17. Common knowledge with applications

18. Zero-sum games

19. Stackelberg games and first-mover/second-mover advantage (application of subgame perfect equilibrium)

20. Location games and product differentiation (applications of two-stage subgame perfect equilibrium)

21. Other refinements of Nash equilibrium: risk dominance, epsilon-Nash equilibrium, etc.

22. Shapley value and applications

23. Games in Networks and endogenous network formation

24. Endogenous coalition formation games

25. Information cascades and herd behavior

26. Others...

Presentations will be individual and last 45 minutes each (including discussion). They will start at week 7 of the course and run for 2-3 weeks. Once selected the topic (deadline week 3) the student will agree with the teacher the texts to be used and the style of presentation, using the office hours (Wednesday 14.30-16.30) or another day requested sending an e-mail.