DECS-452: Game Theory and Strategic Decision-Making
Week 1
Course overview and readings
Week 1 slides
Additional notes
SC Johnson
(and
Edge Shaving Gel
) and
more
The
history
and
business
of Catalina Marketing: Profiting from the Prisoners' Dilemma
Connecticut Electronics
(a review of Bayes' Rule and decision trees)
The auction experiment:
Bidding form
Auction results
Week 2
Class handout
Week 2 slides
Solving
0-sum games
.
[
Read about Rock-Paper-Scissors]
[Play
Chomp
]
Week 3
Class handout
Spreadsheet calculations
based on the
Ware case
.
Ware memoranda:
Preliminary memo to Ware
Preliminary memo to National
Final advice to Ware
Final advice to National
Online references concerning
competitive intelligence
.
Notes on
adverse selection
.
Week 4
Class handout
RCA's SelectaVision VideoDiscs
VCRs are Here to Stay (1988)
Spreadsheet calculations
based on the Dragon case
Week 5
Class handout
The Salty Dog:
Result form
Salty Dog results
Salty Dog notes
Salty Dog regressions
Week 6
Class handout
Riverside vs. DEC:
Result form
Riverside-DEC results
Week 7
Class handout, with final project
Midterm 1(c) spreadsheet
Third-party intervention:
The American Arbitration Association
Mediate.com
CPR
The DRRC at Kellogg
Behaving Badly
(James Montier)
What is "Knowledge"?
Preferences and Utility
The Nash arbitration scheme
In Tribute to John Nash (1928-2015)
John Nash (PNAS Classics)
In Tribute to Lloyd Shapley (1923-2016)
Lloyd Shapley (New York Times)
.
.
Week 8
Class handout
Herodotus
on auctions
An introduction to auctions
From the Baltimore Canyon OCS auction ...
Week 9
Class handout
U.S. Treasury report
on uniform-price auctions
A contract-bidding example
Art Auctions: A Survey of Empirical Studies (Ashenfelter and Graddy)
Week 10
Class handout
The first FCC broadband spectrum auction
Vickrey's approach to "package" bidding
Entire site
(zipped)
.