SUGGESTED TOPICS FOR CLASS PRESENTATIONS
Nash equilibrium existence with examples to oligopoly games
Correlated equilibrium and applications
Sequential equilibrium in Imperfect information extensive form games
Supermodular games with applications (oligopoly games, etc.)
Congestion games in networks (Nash vs. Pareto efficient outcomes, price of anarchy, etc.)
Asymmetric Information: principal-agent model with moral hazard (optimal incentives in organizations)
Asymmetric Information: principal-agent model with adverse selection (optimal incentives in organizations)
Auctions under complete and incomplete information
Coalitional games: stability in cartels
Coalitional games: mergers profitability in oligopolistic markets
Coalitional games and International Environmental Agreements
Evolutionary stability and the replicator dynamics (applications: migration, biology, etc.)
Voting games: electoral competition and political parties
Mechanism design and Vickrey.Clark-Groove mechanisms with applications
Asymmetric Information: the market for lemons, consumers’ deception
Experimental games and bounded rationality
Common knowledge with applications
Zero-sum games
Stackelberg games and first-mover/second-mover advantage (application of subgame perfect equilibrium)
Location games and product differentiation (applications of two-stage subgame perfect equilibrium)
Other refinements of Nash equilibrium: risk dominance, epsilon-Nash equilibrium, etc.
Shapley value and applications
Games in Networks and endogenous network formation
Endogenous coalition formation games
Information cascades and herd behavior
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.
Report abuse