Strategic Information, Schedule Spring 2004, Losee
Starting Date	Topic	Source
Wed Jan 7	Course Section 1: Information => Strategies
Wed Jan 7	Introduction to Course: Strategic Information
Mon Jan 12	What is a strategy?
Wed Jan 14		Dixit, Avinash and Nalebuff, Barry, Thinking Strategically, New York: Norton, 1991.  Part I
Wed Jan 28	What is information?
Wed Jan 28		Losee, Discipline Independent Definition of Information.
Wed Jan 28	What is Strategic Information?
Mon Feb 2	Course Section 2: How much is a weather forecast worth?
Mon Feb 2		Colman (2003), "Cooperation, Psychological Game Theory, and Limitations of Rationality in Social Interaction," Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 26, 139-198. Electronic copy available through Davis Library.
Mon Feb 9	Course Section 3: Intro. To Games
Mon Feb 9		Rasmusen, Eric, Games & Information, 3rd edition, Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.  Ch  1. "Rules of the Game"
Mon Feb 9		Rasmusen, Eric, Readings in Games and Information, Blackwell, 1991.  Readings 1,2,5,6,8
Wed Feb 18	Information Formalisms
Wed Feb 18		Rasmusen, Eric, Games & Information, 3rd edition, Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.  Ch  2. "Information"
Wed Feb 18		Rasmusen, Eric, Readings in Games and Information, Blackwell, 1991.  Readings 9-13.
Mon Feb 23	Course Section 3A: Information for coping with friends, enemies, and others.
Mon Feb 23	Mixed and Continuous Strategies
Mon Feb 23		Rasmusen Ch 3 "Mixed and Continuous Strategies"
Mon Feb 23		Rasmusen, Readings 14-16
Wed Feb 25	Dynamic Games with Symmetric & Complete Information
Wed Feb 25		Rasmusen Ch. 4 "Dynamic Games with Symmetric Information"
Wed Feb 25		Rasmusen, Readings 20-22
Wed Mar 3	Course Section 4: If you don't take this course, I'll kill myself
Wed Mar 3	Reputation and Repeated Games with Symmetric Information
Wed Mar 3		Rasmusen Ch. 5, "Reputation and Repeated Games with Symmetric Information"
Wed Mar 3		Rasmusen, Readings 24-26
Mon Mar 15	Dynamic Games with Incomplete Information
Mon Mar 15		Rasmusen Ch. 6,  "Dynamic Games with Incomplete Information"
Mon Mar 15		Rasmusen, Readings 29,31
Wed Mar 17	Course Section 5: I can drive like a maniac after I get an auto insurance policy
Wed Mar 17	Moral Hazard: Hidden Actions
Wed Mar 17		Rasmusen, Ch. 7, "Moral Hazard: Hidden Actions"
Wed Mar 17		Rasmusen, Readings 34-36
Wed Mar 17		Rasmusen, Ch. 8, "Further Topics in Moral Hazard"
Wed Mar 17		Rasmusen, Readings 37-40
Wed Mar 24	Course Section 6: The Market for Lemons: Agreements with Incomplete Information
Wed Mar 24	Adverse Selection
Wed Mar 24		Rasmusen Ch. 9,  "Adverse Selection"
Wed Mar 24		Rasmusen, Readings 41-43, 45
Mon Mar 29	Mechanism Design in Adverse Selection and in Moral Hazard with Hidden Information
Mon Mar 29		Rasmusen Ch. 10,  "Mechanism Design in Adverse Selection and in Moral Hazard with Hidden Information"
Mon Mar 29		Rasmusen, Readings 46-47, 49
Mon Apr 5	Course Section 7: Signalling: What college did you graduate from, and why does it matter?
Mon Apr 5	Signalling
Mon Apr 5		Rasmusen Ch. 11, "Signalling"
Mon Apr 5		Rasmusen, Readings 51-52
Wed Apr 7		Rasmusen, Readings (Chapts/Parts 12-15) 55, 57-60, 64, 66-67
Wed Apr 7	Course Section 8: Information for group strategizing
Wed Apr 7		Klein, Gary, Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998.  Ch  14, "The Concept of the Team Mind
Wed Apr 7	Teams
Mon Apr 12	Course Section 9: I've got too much data!  Systems to support strategic processes
Wed Apr 14	Class Presentations