Dynamic Games

This course will focus on the game-theoretic study of long-run relationships. My
goal is to equip you to (i) create tractable models appropriate for studying whatever
applied settings interest you, and (ii) study such interactions in detail. Toward that
goal, we'll talk about important papers that develop the state of the art in dynamic
modeling, papers that point to subtleties/complexity in the study of dynamic and
repeated games, and papers that sidestep the latter to address speci?c applied questions.
See the course outline below for a list of topics we'll cover, together with the
speci?c papers that will come up along the way. We will cover some classic papers,
but more recent work is (deliberately) overrepresented here. Of course, this list of
topics and papers is not meant to be comprehensive, but I hope it will be a useful,
brief tour of the literature.
This class being a topics course, familiarity with basic tools of economic theory
and game theory that were covered in the ?rst-year micro sequence is essential.