Assignments

The solution files in the table below only provide answers for some of the problems in the assignments. All solutions are provided courtesy of Alexandre Debs.

Required Texts

Gibbons, Robert. Game Theory for Applied Economists. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780691003955.

Morrow, James D. Game Theory for Political Scientists. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780691034300.

LEC # TOPICS ASSIGNMENTS SOLUTIONS

I. Games of Complete Information

1

Normal Form Games I

Assignment 1

Gibbons. Problems 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3.

Morrow. Exercise 4.1, and 4.2. p. 79, and 81.

Solutions (PDF)

2

Normal Form Games II

Assignment 2

Gibbons. Problems 1.10, 1.12, and 1.5.

Morrow. Exercise 4.6. p. 88.

Solutions (PDF)

3

Normal Form Games III

Assignment 3

Gibbons. Problems 1.13, and 1.6.

Morrow. Exercises 4.11, and 4.12. pp. 107-108.

Solutions (PDF)

4

Normal Form Games IV

Assignment 4

Gibbons. Problems 1.8, and 2.1.

Morrow. Exercise 5.1. p. 126.

Note: You must read section 2.1 of Gibbons and pages 121-128 of Morrow to do the problems on "backward induction"

Solutions (PDF)

5

Extensive Form Games I

Assignment 5 (PDF)

  

6

Extensive Form Games II

Assignment 6

Gibbons. Problems 2.4, and 2.6.

Morrow. Exercise 5.2. p. 130.

Solutions (PDF)

7

Extensive Form Games III

Assignment 7

Gibbons. Problems 2.3, and 2.21.

Morrow. Exercises 5.10, and 5.12. p. 147, and 151.

Solutions (PDF)

8

Repeated Games

Assignment 8

Gibbons. Problem 2.9.

Morrow. Exercises 5.7, and 5.8. p. 143, and 144.

Solutions (PDF)

II. Games of Incomplete Information

9

Normal Form Games

Assignment 9

Gibbons. Problems 2.11, 2.13, and 2.15.

Morrow. Exercises 9.1, 9.2 and 9.3. p. 270 and 274.

Solutions (PDF)

10

Extensive Form Games I

Assignment 10

Gibbons. Problems 3.2, 3.4, and 3.6.

Solutions (PDF)

11

Extensive Form Games II

Assignment 11

Gibbons. Problems 4.1, 4.2, and 4.9.

Solutions (PDF)

12

Extensive Form Games III