Economics and Computation

This course follows Algorithmic Game Theory and covers several topics on mechanism design.

Textbooks & Referenced Lecture Notes

Twenty Lectures on Algorithmic Game Theory. Tim Roughgarden. Cambridge University Press. 2016.

Grading policy

Attendance (10%)
Assignments (20%)
Mini-Project (10%)
Midterm Report/Presentation (30%)
Final Paper Presentation (30%)

Lectures and assignments

Review of Game Theory Basics [slides]
Social Choice [slides]
A Sketch of Nash’s Theorem from Fixed Point Theorems [slides]
Auctions & Mechanism Design Basics [slides]
Algorithmic Mechanism Design (Knapsack Auctions) [slides]
Revenue Maximizing Auctions [slides]
Simple Near-Optimal Auctions [slides]
Multi-Parameter Mechanism Design [slides]
Other Selected Topics

Please feel free to use the slides as long as giving appropriate credit to the author!
Any question is welcome.
Please contact Joseph, Chuang-Chieh Lin (Email to: josephcclin_AT_gms_tku_edu_tw)