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Game Theory II: Advanced Applications

Matthew O. Jackson; Kevin Leyton-Brown; Yoav Shoham
Level: advanced
University: Stanford University, The University of British Columbia
Platform: Coursera
Start: 30.03.2020
Recurrence: monthly
Language: English
Discipline: Economics
Attendance: free
Certificate: 71.00 EUR
Workload per week: 2.0 h

Popularized by movies such as "A Beautiful Mind", game theory is the mathematical modeling of strategic interaction among rational (and irrational) agents. Over four weeks of lectures, this advanced course considers how to design interactions between agents in order to achieve good social outcomes. Three main topics are covered: social choice theory (i.e., collective decision making and voting systems), mechanism design, and auctions.

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