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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: 2

Average GPA: 3.80 (rounds to A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 60.00%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%

Eric A Bahel201960.0%40.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.601
Hector Tzavellas2024100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%4.001

Grade Distribution Over Time

1234GPA
Fall 2019Spring 2024Term050% W