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Course: 2024/2025

Cooperation, collective action and formal models of strategy

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Bachelor in International Studies (2018 Study Plan) (Plan: 408 - Estudio: 305)

Coordinating teacher: SANCHEZ-CUENCA RODRIGUEZ, IGNACIO

Department assigned to the subject: Social Sciences Department

Type: Compulsory

ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course: 2º

Semester: 1º

Branch of knowledge: Social Sciences and Law

Skills and learning outcomes

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Description of contents: programme

1. Decisión theory: individual decision making under uncertainty 2. Non-cooperative static games, Nash equilibrium 3. Repeated games, folk theorems, and the emergence of reciprocity rules 4. Imperfect information games, signaling, reputational effects 5. Cooperative games, bargaining

Assessment System

% end-of-term-examination 20
% of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 80

Students are expected to solve three problem sets individually, each of them carrying a 20% weight over the final grade.

There will be a final test (20%) and a term paper to be written in groups about applications of game theory to the social sciences (e.g. international relations, electoral competition, political regimes).

Extraordinary call: regulations

Basic Bibliography

Martin Osborne. An Introduction to Game Theory. Oxford University Press. 2004
Morrow, James. Game Theory for Political Scientists. University of Michigan Press. 1994
Ordeshook, Peter. A Political Theory Primer. Routledge. 1992

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.