COURSE INFORMATION Course Title: GAME THEORY FOR POLITICAL SCIENCES

Code	Course Type	Regular Semester	Theory	Practice	Lab	Credits	ECTS
ECO 561	B	3	3	0	0	3	6

Academic staff member responsible for the design of the course syllabus (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature)	NA
Lecturer (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours:	Eglantina Hysa
Second Lecturer(s) (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours:	NA
Teaching Assistant(s) and Office Hours:	NA
Language:	English
Compulsory/Elective:	Elective
Classroom and Meeting Time:
Course Description:	-
Course Objectives:	The purpose of the course is to give students an understanding of the field of game theory and how political sciences uses it.

COURSE OUTLINE

Week	Topics
1	Introduction
2	The theory of choices
3	Individual Choice Under Certainty and Uncertainty
4	Social choices
5	Nash equilibrium
6	Applications: Electoral Competition, the Commons Problem
7	Mixed-Strategy Nash Equilibrium
8	Midterm
9	Rationalizability and Iterated Dominance
10	Extensive Games with Perfect Information
11	Repeated games
12	Bargaining Models
13	Extensive Games with Imperfect Information
14	Cooperative Game Theory

Prerequisite(s):
Textbook:	McCarty and Meirowitz. 2006. Political Game Theory, Cambridge University Press. Osborne. 2004. An Introduction to Game Theory, Oxford Press
Other References:
Laboratory Work:
Computer Usage:
Others:	No

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

1	Giving an understanding to the students the way game theory works and how it is used in political sciences.
2	Developing students intuition about strategic decision in everyday life
3	Students will be able to learn game theory literature and understand the early formal models in political sciences.
4	Developing student’s analytical capabilities in general.

COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO... PROGRAM COMPETENCIES (Blank : no contribution, 1: least contribution ... 5: highest contribution)

No	Program Competencies	Cont.
Master of Science in Economics Program
1	The students are gained the ability to look at the problems of daily life from a broader perspective. They gain the needed skills not only to understand economic problems in economics but also to construct a model and defend in meaningful way.	5
2	They have knowledge about the microeconomics.	4
3	They have knowledge about the macroeconomics.	4
4	They have knowledge about the international economics and finance.	2
5	They have ability to use mathematical and statistical methods in economics.	4
6	They know how to use computer programs in both daily office usage and statistical data evaluations in public and private sector.	1
7	They have necessary economics skills that needed in private and public sector.	3
8	They are intended to be specialist in one of departmental fields that they choose from the list of general economics, growth and development, labor economics and labor market, environmental economics, agricultural economics, health economics, education economics and human development, political economics, international economics, monetary economics, finance economics, public finance, international financial markets and institutions, banking and central banking, international trade and banking, monetary economics and banking,	3
9	They have ability to utilize fundamental economic theories and tools to solve economic problems in economics.	4
10	They are aware of the fact that economics is a social science and they respect the social perspectives and social values of the society’s ethics.	3

COURSE EVALUATION METHOD

Method	Quantity	Percentage
Homework	1	10
Midterm Exam(s)	1	30
Quiz	1	10
Final Exam	1	40
Attendance		10
	Total Percent:	100%

ECTS (ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD)

Activities	Quantity	Duration(Hours)	Total Workload(Hours)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours)	16	3	48
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)	16	3	48
Mid-terms	1	12	12
Assignments			0
Final examination	1	20	20
Other	2	11	22
Total Work Load:			150
Total Work Load/25(h):			6
ECTS Credit of the Course:			6