Teaching 2023-4

We will have supervisions in person in my office V5ii at Christ’s. I’ve marked its location on this College map. Outside the supervisions, the best way of getting in touch with me is by email js591.

Assignments

Please submit your work into your Micro OneDrive folder by the deadline (below). I will mark the work and put it back into your Micro OneDrive folder. Please check your folder just before the start of your supervision.

• You will get the link to your Micro OneDrive folder by email. Some instructions for using OneDrive are here https://help.uis.cam.ac.uk/one-drive

• Your submission should be one pdf file, with your name written on your work. Your college and name should appear in the file name (e.g. CHR_HermioneGranger_micro_sup0.pdf)

• Late work will not be marked. Those who do not submit work forfeit the right to attend the supervision.

• I encourage you to do the work by hand (good practice for exam).

• I might display some of your work in the supervision and ask you to talk about it. Also, I might use it in teaching future students, but please let me know if you prefer me not to.

• Please look over your work before you come to the supervision to remind yourself of the questions and your answers. This way, we can hit the ground running in the supervision.

I. Micro Part I

Easter term:

Supervision schedule (updated April 12, password needed)

Deadline for submitting Supervision 8 is Monday, April 22, 5pm

Lent term:

Supervision schedule (updated February 9, password needed)

Deadline for submitting work: 5pm on Tuesday if your supervision is on Wednesday, 5pm on Wednesday if your supervision is on Thursday or Friday.

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 Friday, October 7. 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.

Deadline for submitting supervision work: 5pm on Wednesday in the week of the supervision.

Supervision schedule (password protected, last update October 2)

Supervision 0:

• Assignment

• Main reading: Is altruism rational? by Andreoni & Miller (2008)

• Additional reading for the curious:

  • 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 (updated April 12, password needed)

Deadline for submitting Supervision 8 is Saturday, April 27, 5pm

Lent term:

Supervision schedule (password needed)

Deadline for submitting work: 5pm on Tuesday if your supervision is on Wednesday, 5pm on Wednesday if your supervision is on Thursday or Friday.

Additional reading:

• for MT Supervision 4 on Social choice: A voting rule to break Brexit impasse (by Jagjit Chadha, Hamid Sabourian and Toke Aidt)

• for LT Supervision 2 on firm entry and asymmetric information (question 3):

  • ReaLemon case (Schmalensee, 1979)

  • A game of entry deterrence with asymmetric information (Kreps and Wilson 1982)

  • A game of limit (predatory) pricing (Milgrom and Roberts 1982)

Michaelmas term:

Supervision schedule (password needed)

Deadline for submitting work: 5pm on Tuesday in the week of the supervision.

Supervision 3. 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