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LNMB Course NCG

Course NCG: Noncooperative Games

Time: Monday 13.15–15.00
Period: 17 November 2025 – 15 December 2025 and 19 January 2026 – 16 February 2026
Location: All LNMB courses take place on the Campus Utrecht Science Park.

Room HFG 611, Hans-Freudenthal building, Budapestlaan 6, 3584 CD Utrecht

Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Jean-Jacques Herings and Prof. Dr. Peter Borm (Tilburg University)

Course description

TThis course presents the main ideas of noncooperative game theory in the following order: strategic games, extensive games with perfect information, and extensive games with imperfect information. We explore solution concepts like Nash equilibrium, correlated equilibrium, rationalizability, subgame perfect equilibrium, and sequential equilibrium.

Topics to be covered:

  • Nash equilibrium
  • Mixed, correlated, and evolutionary equilibrium
  • Rationalizability and iterated elimination of dominated actions
  • Knowledge and equilibrium
  • Extensive games with perfect information
  • Bargaining games
  • Repeated games
  • Complexity considerations in repeated games
  • Implementation theory
  • Extensive games with imperfect information
  • Sequential equilibrium

Literature

  • Osborne, M.J., and A. Rubinstein (1994), A Course in Game Theory, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge (bachelor level) of analysis (multivariate calculus) and linear algebra, as well as a first course in linear and nonlinear programming. Basic knowledge of topology is also recommended.

Examination

Take home exams. These assignments have to be completed in groups of at most two students.

Address of the lecturers

Prof. Dr. Jean-Jacques Herings and Prof. Dr. Peter Borm
Department of Econometrics & Operations Research
Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg.
E-mail: P.J.J.Herings@tilburguniversity.edu, P.E.M.Borm@tilburguniversity.edu