MAE908 - Game Theory and Its Applications

Year:

2025 unit information

Enrolment modes: Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne)
Credit point(s): 1
EFTSL value: 0.125
Cohort rule: This unit is only available to students enrolled in M820, M900
Previously:

Microeconomic Theory II

Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite: Nil
Incompatible with: Nil
Study commitment

Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Scheduled learning activities - campus

1 x 2 hour on-campus lecture and 1 x 1 hour on-campus seminar each week

Content

This unit covers strategic behaviour of rational agents. Topics include strategic-form games with complete information and strategic-form games with incomplete information, dynamic games, equilibrium concepts for analysing these games. This unit will study Economics of Information and some introductory social choice theory, bargaining and cooperative game theory.

Hurdle requirement

Hurdle requirement: Achieve at least 50% of the marks available on the end-of-unit assessment task to evidence a minimum proficiency in the aligned discipline learning outcomes included in this unit.

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