Teaching plan

DateTeacherPlaceTopicLecture notes / comments
27.01.2010Jon Hovi? Room 847 ESH ? Rationality. Theoretical conditions for a threat to be effective. Credibility. Nash equilibrium. Subgame-perfect equilibrium. ? Literature: Conybeare (2004); Dixit & Skeath (1999); Ellsberg (1975); Elster (1986); Gibbons (1997); Harsanyi (1986); Hovi (1998, ch. 2); Kilgour & Wolinsky-Nahmias (2004)

Recommended: Hovi (2008)?

29.01.2010Jon Hovi? Room 847 ESH? Nuclear Deterrence? Literature: Hovi (1998, ch. 3); Powell (1989, ch. 1-2)

Recommended: Kraig (1999); McGinnis (1992); O'Neill (1992); Rapoport (1992); Wagner (1992)

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03.02.2010Jon Hovi? Room 847 ESH? Games of Incomplete Information. Bayes' rule? Literature: Fink et al. (1998); Gibbons (1997); Morrow (1994)

Recommended: Gates & Humes (1997), Dixit & Skeath (1999, kap. 12) ?

05.02.2010Jon Hovi? Room 847 ESH? Economic sanctions? Literature: Baldwin (1999); Drezner (2003); Hovi, Huseby & Sprinz (2005); Pape (1997); Weiss (1999)

Recommended: Drezner (1999, 2000); Hovi (2001)?

10.02.2010H?vard Hegre? Room 847 ESH? Rationalist explanations of war I: Incomplete information and bargaining models.? Literature: Fearon 1995, Gartzke 1999, Werner & Yuen 2005, Kydd, 2004.?
12.02.2010H?vard Hegre? Room 847 ESH? Rationalist explanations of war II: Commitment problems? Literature: Fearon (2004), Collier (2000), Schelling (1966)?
17.02.2010H?vard Hegre? Room 847 ESH? Rationalist explanations of war III: Guns versus butter models ? Literature: Gibbons (1992), Skaperdas & Garfinkel (2000), Powell (1991), Snidal (2004).

Recommended: Hirshleifer (2001 ch. 3), Powell (1999, ch. 2)?

19.02.2010H?vard Hegre? Room 847 ESH? Rationalist explanations of terrorism? Literature: Kydd & Walter (2002), Sandler & Arce 2003, Pape (2003)

Recommended: Gambetta (2005), Azam (2005)?

24.02.2010Jon Hovi? Rom 847 ESH? Excercises. Students' presentations? ?
26.02.2010H?vard Hegre ? Rom 847 ESH? Excercises. Students' presentations? ?
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