PART I: Introduction and Course credits

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Introduction

Course credits and introduction

PART II: Game Theory

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Practical exercise: Class room experiment on the beauty contest game

Literature:

• Camerer, Colin F. Behavioral game theory: Experiments in strategic interaction. Princeton University Press, 2011. Chapter 1: Introduction, p. 1-24.
• Selten, Reinhard, and Rosemarie Nagel. "Das Zahlenwahlspiel-Hintergründe und Ergebnisse." Spektrum der Wissenschaft, February (1998): 16-22.
• Diekmann, Andreas. "Rational choice, evolution and the “Beauty Contest”. In: Raymond Boudon. A Life in Sociology. Oxford: Bardwell (2009).

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5.3.19

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Cooperative vs noncooperative game theory

Literature:

• Serrano, Roberto. Cooperative games: Core and Shapley value. No. 2007-11. Working Paper, Brown University, Department of Economics, 2007
• Gale, David, and Lloyd S. Shapley. "College admissions and the stability of marriage." The American Mathematical Monthly 69.1 (1962): 9-15.

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Non-cooperative game theory: Normal form, Best replies, Nash equilibrium

Literature:

• Nash, John. "Non-cooperative games." Annals of mathematics (1951): 286-295.

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Non-cooperative game theory: dynamics, Sub-game perfection

Literature:

• Exercises and notes will be distributed.

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26.3.19

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Experimental game theory, Behavioral game theory, Learning in games

Literature:

• Camerer, Colin F. "Progress in behavioral game theory." Journal of economic perspectives 11.4 (1997): 167-188.

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Cooperation and punishment: Class experiment and discussion

Literature:

• Fehr, Ernst, and Herbert Gintis. "Human motivation and social cooperation: Experimental and analytical foundations." Annu. Rev. Sociol. 33 (2007): 43-64.

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Bargaining, Markets

Literature:

• Exercises and notes will be distributed.

PART III: Sociological applications and experiments

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16.4.19

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Cooperation and punishment: Experimental evidence

Literature:

• Chaudhuri, A. (2011). “Sustaining cooperation in laboratory public goods experiments: a selective survey of the literature.” Experimental Economics, 14(1), 47-83.
• Henrich, Joseph, et al. "Costly punishment across human societies." Science 312.5781 (2006): 1767-1770.
• Herrmann, Benedikt, Christian Thöni, and Simon Gächter. "Antisocial punishment across societies." Science 319.5868 (2008): 1362-1367.

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23.4.19

• Easter break

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30.4.19

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Normative conflict

Literature:

• Winter, Fabian, Heiko Rauhut, and Dirk Helbing. "How norms can generate conflict: An experiment on the failure of cooperative micro-motives on the macro-level." Social Forces 90.3 (2012): 919-946.
• Nikiforakis, Nikos, Charles N. Noussair, and Tom Wilkening. "Normative conflict and feuds: The limits of self-enforcement." Journal of Public Economics 96.9-10 (2012): 797-807.

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Lying, ignorance and social dynamics

Literature:

• Rauhut, Heiko. "Beliefs about lying and spreading of dishonesty: Undetected lies and their constructive and destructive social dynamics in dice experiments." PloS one 8.11 (2013): e77878.
• Abeler, J., D. Nosenzo, and C. Raymond (2016). “Preferences for truth-telling”. Working Paper. [Meta-analysis]
• Gächter, Simon, and Jonathan F. Schulz. "Intrinsic honesty and the prevalence of rule violations across societies." Nature 531.7595 (2016): 496.

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Signaling

Literature:

• Gambetta, Diego. "Signaling." The Oxford handbook of analytical sociology (2009): 168-194.
• Rebecca Bliege Bird and Eric Alden Smith: "Signaling theory, strategic interaction, and symbolic capital." Current anthropology 46.2 (2005): 221-248.
• Diekmann, Andreas, and Wojtek Przepiorka. "Soziale Normen als Signale: Der Beitrag der Signaling-Theorie." Soziologische Theorie kontrovers. Vol. 50. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2010. 220-237.

PART IV: Exam

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21.5.19

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Questions & Answers, Discussion, further specialization

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28.5.19

Exam