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ECON-6004: Strategic Behavior

Description: Emphasizes strategic behavior in the presence of multiple decision makers. Game theory deals with strategic interaction and provides the formal framework to describe and analyze situations with conflicting interests--as well as situations with both common and conflicting interests. Proof of applicability is provided by means of numerical examples and real life cases, e.g., bargaining, contract theory, economic policy games, and voting.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: (ECON-5005 and ECON-5006)

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 13

Average GPA: 3.61 (A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 41.29%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%

Eric A Bahel201959.5%37.7%1.4%0.0%1.4%0.0%3.549
Hector Tzavellas2024100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%4.001
Hans H Haller200890.0%5.0%5.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.792
Robert P Gilles200555.6%44.4%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.491

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