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My office hours: M 1:00-3:50 and W 10:00-11:50 in Max 313, or by appointment or drop-in. I will also try to have informal "office hours" in the Prentiss dining hall at 6pm on Tuesdays.

Note to instructors: Most of the files below were generated in LaTeX; in most cases the source code for file.pdf (and, for exams and such, for filekey.pdf) should be downloadable as file.tex. Also downloadable (in both formats) is my class log (.pdf).

Taught spring semester 2005 at Whitman College.

Final exam: 9-11am on Wednesday, May 18. My reading of the final exam schedule indicates that our final is scheduled for the time noted above. Please let me know immediately if you think I have it wrong. Here is a list of topics that are fair game for the final exam. The final exam and its answer key will be posted after class.

Complete Course Schedule

(subject to change!)

Note that some of the readings below link to restricted access websites such as JSTOR. Whitman folks should be able to access these from any computer on campus, or from any computer off campus once properly configured with the Whitman proxy server.

Week 1 (starts Monday, January 17)

Tuesday: Introductions; Chapter 1 of the text

Thursday: After a quick calculus review (click here (.pdf) for some lecture notes that may prove useful), we will cover sections 2.1-2.7 of the text

Note that we will not cover this chapter or most other chapters in a single day.
Here is problem set PS 1 (.pdf), due in class next Thursday.

Week 2 (starts Monday, January 24)

Tuesday: Sections 2.7 and 2.9-2.10. (Section 2.8, on best response functions, will be covered elsewhere with calculus.) We will also be covering these notes (.pdf) on the "cross-out" and "underlining" methods of finding Nash equilibrium.

Thursday: Section 3.1 (Cournot). (Note to instructors: Here are some notes (.pdf) on Cournot that may be helpful.)

Problem set PS 1 is due in class today. (Note to instructors: Obsorne has an exercise (34.3) on Braess's traffic paradox, but I like this version (.pdf) better.)

Week 3 (starts Monday, January 31)

Tuesday: Go over PS 1 and start on Cournot problem from PS 2

Here is problem set PS 2, due in class next Thursday

Thursday: Section 3.2 (Bertrand) and PS 2

Week 4 (starts Monday, February 7)

Tuesday: Sections 3.3, 3.4, and 3.5 (electoral competition and the war of attrition)

Thursday: Section 3.5 (auctions) and discuss PS 2

Problem set PS 2 is due in class today.
Note that we are skipping Section 3.6 (accident law)

Week 5 (starts Monday, February 14)

Tuesday: Yoram out sick; classwork on PS 2

Thursday: Start on Chapter 4, look at exercise 59.2 from PS 2

Here is problem set PS 3, due in class on Tuesday March 1

Week 6 (starts Monday, February 21)

Tuesday: Finish exercise 59.2, continue in Chapter 4

Here is my solution to 58.1 and 59.2; please let me know if you find any typos or other sources of confusion

Thursday: Chapter 4

Week 7 (starts Monday, February 28)

Tuesday: Chapter 4

Problem set PS 3 is due in class today.

Thursday: Chapter 4

Week 8 (starts Monday, March 7)

Tuesday: The first exam, on chapters 1-4, will be today. After the exam I'll post the exam and its answer key.

Thursday: We'll go over the exam and cover this handout on utility functions.

Weeks 9 and 10 (starts Monday, March 14)

Spring Break - No Classes

Week 11 (starts Monday, March 28)

Tuesday: Chapter 5

Thursday: Chapter 6

Here is problem set PS 4, due in class on Tuesday April 12.

Week 12 (starts Monday, April 4)

Tuesday:No Class (Whitman Undergraduate Conference)

Thursday: Chapter 6

Week 13 (starts Monday, April 11)

Tuesday: Chapter 14

Problem set PS 4 is due in class today.

Thursday: Chapter 14

Week 14 (starts Monday, April 18)

Tuesday: Start of Chapter 13 (Jump in sequence!)

Here is problem set PS 5, due in class on Thursday April 28.

Thursday: Chapter 13

Week 15 (starts Monday, April 25)

Tuesday: Chapter 13. We may also devote some time to working on PS 5.

Thursday: Chapter 13

Problem set PS 5 is due in class today.

Week 16 (starts Monday, May 2)

Tuesday: TBD

Thursday: TBD

Week 17 (starts Monday, May 9)

Tuesday: TBD

Today is the last day of class.

Final exam: 9-11am on Wednesday, May 18

My reading of the final exam schedule indicates that our final is scheduled for the time noted above. Please let me know immediately if you think I have it wrong. Here is a list of topics that are fair game for the final exam. The final exam and its answer key will be posted after class.