| Date | Teacher | Place | Topic | Lecture notes / comments |
| 27.01.2010 | Jon Hovi | Room 847 ESH | Rationality. Theoretical conditions for a threat to be effective. Credibility. Nash equilibrium. Subgame-perfect equilibrium. | Literature: Conybeare (2004); Dixit & Skeath (1999); Ellsberg (1975); Elster (1986); Gibbons (1997); Harsanyi (1986); Hovi (1998, ch. 2); Kilgour & Wolinsky-Nahmias (2004)Recommended: Hovi (2008) |
| 29.01.2010 | Jon Hovi | Room 847 ESH | Nuclear Deterrence | Literature: Hovi (1998, ch. 3); Powell (1989, ch. 1-2)Recommended: Kraig (1999); McGinnis (1992); O'Neill (1992); Rapoport (1992); Wagner (1992) |
| 03.02.2010 | Jon Hovi | Room 847 ESH | Games of Incomplete Information. Bayes' rule | Literature: Fink et al. (1998); Gibbons (1997); Morrow (1994)Recommended: Gates & Humes (1997), Dixit & Skeath (1999, kap. 12) |
| 05.02.2010 | Jon Hovi | Room 847 ESH | Economic sanctions | Literature: Baldwin (1999); Drezner (2003); Hovi, Huseby & Sprinz (2005); Pape (1997); Weiss (1999)Recommended: Drezner (1999, 2000); Hovi (2001) |
| 10.02.2010 | Håvard Hegre | Room 847 ESH | Rationalist explanations of war I: Incomplete information and bargaining models. | Literature: Fearon 1995, Gartzke 1999, Werner & Yuen 2005, Kydd, 2004. |
| 12.02.2010 | Håvard Hegre | Room 847 ESH | Rationalist explanations of war II: Commitment problems | Literature: Fearon (2004), Collier (2000), Schelling (1966) |
| 17.02.2010 | Håvard Hegre | Room 847 ESH | Rationalist explanations of war III: Guns versus butter models | Literature: Gibbons (1992), Skaperdas & Garfinkel (2000), Powell (1991), Snidal (2004).Recommended: Hirshleifer (2001 ch. 3), Powell (1999, ch. 2) |
| 19.02.2010 | Håvard Hegre | Room 847 ESH | Rationalist explanations of terrorism | Literature: Kydd & Walter (2002), Sandler & Arce 2003, Pape (2003)Recommended: Gambetta (2005), Azam (2005) |
| 24.02.2010 | Jon Hovi | Rom 847 ESH | Excercises. Students' presentations | |
| 26.02.2010 | Håvard Hegre | Rom 847 ESH | Excercises. Students' presentations |
Teaching plan
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