Game Theory and Social Choice

– Objectives

The course is meant to provide a working knowledge of the basic notions of game theory, with a special emphasis on issues related to mechanism design and aggregation protocols

– Contents

This module provides a detailed presentation of the coalitional, strategic and extensive formats, and their most widely used solution rules

– Texts

M.J. Osborne, A. Rubinstein: A Course in Game Theory. MIT Press, 1994.

T. Roughgarden et al.: Algorithmic Game Theory. Cambridge University Press 2007.