Präsenzveranstaltung

There will be an initial Zoom meeting for all seminar participants at the beginning of the semester (date to be announced shortly before the semester starts). Afterwards, we encourage each student to have one individual Zoom meeting with their instructor to talk about the (planned) topic of the seminar paper and its structure. In addition, there will be one or two more Zoom meetings for all students, and each student is encouraged to send some preliminary draft of the seminar paper to the instructor well before the seminar weekend, to get feedback from the instructor.

23.02.2024

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In this seminar, we cover topics from the theory of dynamic games (especially games in continuous time), as well as political economic models, especially games of electoral competition.

Examples are:

• Ansolabehere, S. and Snyder, J.M. (2000). Valence politics and equilibrium in spatial election models. Public Choice, 103, 327-336.
• Aragones, E. and Palfrey, T.R. (2002). Mixed Equilibrium in a Downsian Model with a Favored Candidate. Journal of Economic Theory, 103, 131-161.
• Calford, E. and Oprea, R. (2017) Continuity, inertia, and strategic uncertainty: a test of the theory of continuous time games. Econometrica, 85, 915-935.
• van Damme, E. and Hurkens, S. (1999) Endogenous Stackelberg leadership. Games and Economic Behavior, 28, 105-129.
• Denter, P. (2021) Valence, complementarities, and political polarization. Games and Economic Behavior, 128, 39-57.
• Hamilton, J.H. and Slutsky, S.M. (1990) Endogenous timing in duopoly games: Stackelberg or Cournot equilibria. Games and Economic Behavior, 2, 29-46.
• Hendricks, K., Weiss, A., and Wilson, C. (1988) The War of Attrition in continuous time with complete information. International Economic Review, 29, 663-680.
• Hoppe, H.C. and Lehmann-Grube, U. (2005) Innovation timing games: a general framework with applications. Journal of Economic Theory, 121, 30-50.
• Park, I.-U. and Xiong, S. (2020) An extensive-form representation of continuous-time games with reaction lag. Working paper.
• Simon, L.K. and Stinchcombe, M.B. (1989) Extensive form games in continuous time: pure strategies. Econometrica, 57, 1171-1214.