Teaching 2021-22
We will normally have supervisions in person in room V5ii at Christ’s (if this changes, I will let you know). I’ve marked it’s location on this College map.
The best way to get in touch with me is by email, js591.
Please upload your supervision assignments to your personal Micro OneDrive folder, a link to which I’ve shared with you. If you are new to OneDrive, here are some instructions. The assignment needs to be uploaded as one pdf file, making sure your name is written at the top of your work assignment and is in the file name. Late work will not be marked. I encourage you to do the work by hand (and scan it for submission). I may display some of your work in the supervision and ask you to talk about it. Also, I may use your work in teaching future students, but please let me know if you prefer me not to.
I. Micro Part I
Easter term:
Supervision schedules (password protected):
Lent term:
Supervision schedules:
Christ’s (updated January 5)
Caius and Churchill (updated January 5)
Deadlines for submitting work:
Supervision 4 (from Michaelmas): Thursday January 13 6pm
All subsequent supervisions: 6pm on Saturday preceding the supervision
Michaelmas term:
Before you start: make sure you go through the Maths and Stats Pre-Course Revision for Part Is by Prof Onatskiy, ideally before you start your Micro lectures on Tuesday, October 12. The key topics for Micro are number 1 (Specifying…), 2 (Elementary…), 4 (Bivariate…) and 5 (Chain…). Your aim is to make sure you understand the concepts fully and can apply them.
Supervision schedule (password protected)
Deadline for submitting supervision work: 9am on Wednesday in the week of the supervision
Main reading: Is altruism rational? by Andreoni & Miller (2008)
Additional reading:
The distributional preferences of Americans by Fisman et al (2021)
Distributional preferences and political behaviour by Fisman et al (2017)
II. Micro Part IIA
Easter term:
Supervision schedule (password protected)
Lent term:
Supervision schedule (password protected, updated January 27)
Deadline for submitting work: 6pm on Saturday preceding the supervision
Arrow’s impossibility theorem: Martin Brogaard’s outstanding essay
Michaelmas term:
Supervision schedule (password protected, updated October 28 with Zoom links)
Deadline for submitting work:
Micro warm up: 9am on Tuesday October 19
All other supervisions: 9am on Wednesday in the week of the supervision
Micro warm up assignment (readings are linked above under Micro Part I Supervision 0)
Repeated games — additional reading for the curious: “Facing the Grim Truth: Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma Against Robot Opponents” by John Duffy, Ed Hopkins and Tatiana Kornienko