These are the slides for my PhD course, formerly known as General Equilibrium.

The course outline is available here.

Mini Course 1: Insights on Monotone Methods in Economics You Must Know

• Slides
• Assignment Problems
• Assignment Solutions

Mini Course 2: Inside Secrets of Information, Learning and Social Learning

Lectures

• 1. Risky Choice and Blackwell’s Theorem
  Lones’ Note: Blackwell’s Theorem with the Original Wonderful Proof
• 2. Beyond Blackwell’s Theorem: The Law of Large Demand for Information
• 3. Introduction to Informational Herding
  Pathological Outcomes of Observational Learning (my original 1990s seminar slides)
  Observational Learning, New Palgrave (2011). (pre-publication PDF here)
• 4. Constrained Efficient Informational Herding
• 5. Other Social Learning Insights Slides

• Assignment Problems
• Assignment Solutions

Mini Course 3: Exotic and Yet Useful Game Theory Topics

Lectures

1. Repeated 0-Sum Incomplete Information Games and Bayesian Persuasion as Verified Cheap Talk
2. Supermodular and Submodular Games Games
3. Silent Timing Games

Assignment Problems and Solutions:

1. Bayesian persuasion question & solution combined
2. A Supermodular Location Game
3. A Supermodular Location Game – Solved