Master
2024/2025
Game Theory
Type:
Elective course (Contemporary Journalism)
Area of studies:
Journalism
Delivered by:
Institute of Media
When:
2 year, 3 module
Mode of studies:
distance learning
Online hours:
38
Open to:
students of one campus
Master’s programme:
Contemporary Journalism
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
6
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Popularized by movies such as "A Beautiful Mind," game theory is the mathematical modeling of strategic interaction among rational (and irrational) agents. Beyond what we call `games' in common language, such as chess, poker, soccer, etc., it includes the modeling of conflict among nations, political campaigns, competition among firms, and trading behavior in markets such as the NYSE. How could you begin to model keyword auctions, and peer to peer file-sharing networks, without accounting for the incentives of the people using them? The course will provide the basics: representing games and strategies, the extensive form (which computer scientists call game trees), Bayesian games (modeling things like auctions), repeated and stochastic games, and more. We'll include a variety of examples including classic games and a few applications.