Ben Brooks

Department of Economics
University of Chicago

babrooks@uchicago.edu (email)

Teaching



ECON 20700: Game Theory and Economic Applications

Introductory undergraduate game theory.


ECON 30200: Price Theory II

Decision theory, general equilibrium, and game theory for first year PhD students.


ECMA 30770-30780: Decision and strategy

Honors-level proof-based undergraduate game theory.


ECON 30502: Topics in Economic Theory II (UChicago)

ECON 289: Advanced Topics in Game Theory and Information Economics (Stanford)

Linear programming, epistemic game theory, Bayesian games, robust predictions, Bayesian mechanism design, robust mechanism design. Each lecture has an accompanying problem set in Python for numerically computing and analyzing the solution.
Lecture 1: Linear programming
Lecture 2: Knowledge and beliefs
Lecture 3: Robust predictions
Lecture 4: Mechanism design
Lecture 5: Robust mechanism design
Lecture 6: Informationally robust mechanism design
Problem set 1a Problem set 1b Solution
Problem set 2 Solution
Problem set 3 Solution
Problem set 4 Solution
Problem set 5 Solution


Lectures on Robust Auction Design