Fall: 617 (whole term) + 602 (half term)
Winter: 619/620 (whole term) + 610 (half term)

Microeconomics 602 [= Decision and Game Theory]

2001 Syllabus: (ps) or (pdf)

Fall 2000 Quizzes (pdf format) were: #1,#2,#3

2000 Final exam: (ps) or (pdf)

PhD candidates must pass a first year prelim exam, such as:

The big picture on the revised PhD micro core sequence is

• 601 (half term): "Classical Price Theory": producer & consumer theory, partial equilibrium analysis
• 602 (half term): decision theory and game theory
• 603 (half term): general equilibrium analysis, liberally interpreted
• 604 (half term): moral hazard, adverse selection, auctions, mechanism design, etc.

Economics 617 [= Advanced Game Theory]

syllabus:

asmts: #1

asmts: #2

Econ 610 [= Stochastic Dynamic Optimization in Economics]

• Winter 2001: starts midterm, immediately after Miles Kimball's (unrelated) 609 course
• meets in Lorch Hall 373 Tu/Thus 11:40-1PM
• PhD core course, on discrete and continuous time stochastic dynamic optimization
• a course the whole family can take!
• Spring 2002 syllabus:
• some solved stochastic differential equations: (pdf)
• continuous time limits of discrete time models: (pdf)
• 2001 Term Quizzes (pdf): : #1 #2 #3
• Spring 2001 Final Exam: : (pdf)

• Winter, 2002: both will meet Tu/Thus 10:10-11:30 in Lorch Hall, 373
• 2002 (pdf) syllabus for 619:
• 2002 (pdf) syllabus for 620:
• Many of the papers are in the research section off my web page, and now available for download.
• Last year's assignments (pdf format) were: #1,#2,#3,#4
• Blackwell's excellent proof of his famous Theorem :
• handout on the Dynkin martingale for Markov processes:
• Winter 2001 final exam :
• Advanced Theory `Prelim' Exam (2000) :

(Page updated September 23, 2002.) The exact time right now is found here: