Econ522 - Topics in Game Theory

ECON522 - TOPICS IN GAME THEORY

November 13, Eric's talk is based on Congestion games - Rosenthal and Monderer and Shapley - potential games. There is no class Thursday. Steven will talk on Nov. 20.

The course covers a number of basic topics and touches on some problems that could provide a direction for thesis research.

Reading List

Review the text by Mas-Collel, Whinston and Green. Also Bernard Salanie, “The Economics of Contracts: A Primer” MIT Press, 1997, and Paul Klemperer “Auctions:Theory and Practise” ,online version http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/users/klemperer/VirtualBook/VirtualBookCoverSheet.asp
Auctions.-
Surplus Extraction.
- Jacques Cremer and Richard McLean “Full Extraction of the Surplus in Bayesian and Dominant Strategy Auctions” Econometrica 1988. On Line version requires JSTOR access
- Lecture notes on Cremer McLean http://montoya.econ.ubc.ca/Econ522/cremer_mclean.pdf
Robust Mechanism Design
- Stephen Morris and Dirk Bergmann “Robust Mechanism Design” Econometrica 2004. On line version http://www.princeton.edu/~smorris/pdfs/paper_43_Robust_Mechanism_Design.pdf
- Stephen Morris and Dirk Bergmann “Robust Implementation: The Role of Direct Mechanisms” mimeo 2006 paper http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=890350
Common Agency.
- Paul Klemperer and Margaret Meyer “Supply Function Equilibria” Econometrica 1989. On-line version http://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/users/klemperer/supply.pdf
- Peters, M “Common Agency and the Revelation Principle” Econometrica 2001 On Line version - http://montoya.econ.ubc.ca/papers/common_agency5.pdf
- Lars Stole and David Martimort “Delegation and Revelation Principle in Common Agency Games” Econometrica 2002. On line version http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0262.t01-1-00345
- Peters, M “Negotiation and Take it or Leave it in Common Agency” Journal of Economic Theory 2003. On-line version http://montoya.econ.ubc.ca/papers/nonlinear_prices3.pdf
- Martimort, David “Common Agency with Informed Principals” , mimeo 2005. On line version http://idei.fr/doc/by/martimort/common_agency.pdf
Competing Mechanisms
- M. Peters “Surplus Extraction and Competition” Review of Economic Studies 2001, Volume 68, Issue 3,pp 613--631
- Takuro Yamashita, “A Unified Approach to Mechanism Design with Multiple Principals and Agents” mimeo 2005. On line version http://montoya.econ.ubc.ca/Econ522/yamashita_paper.pdf"
- Seungjin Han, “Menu Theorems for Bilateral Contracting” Journal of Economic Theory 2006. On line version http://microeconomics.ca/seungjin_han/dup_bicontract25.pdf
Matching.
- Alvin Roth and Marilda Sotomayor “Two Sided Matching” 1990 Cambridge University Press
- Utku Unver et al, “Pairwise Kidney Exchange” paper http://ideas.repec.org/p/wpa/wuwpga/0408001.html
- M. Peters and Aloysius Siow, Competing Pre-Marital Investments, Journal of Political Economy, 2002. On Line version http://montoya.econ.ubc.ca/papers/existence103.pdf
- Ivar Ekeland, "Equilibrium in Hedonic Markets", mimeo, On Line version http://www.pims.math.ca/~ekeland/research/hedonic equilibrium.pdf
- M. Peters , "The Pre-Marital Investment Game", mimeo, On Line version http://microeconomics.ca/michael_peters/matching_limit_sim.pdf