Roger Myerson's web site

Research. Current unpublished research papers are available here for downloading in Adobe PDF format. See also the curriculum vitae for references to published papers.

Teaching. Courses to be taught at the University of Chicago in 2009-2010:

Economics 20700. Game Theory. This course introduces students to the basic ideas and applications of game theory. Topics include models of games in extensive and strategic form, equilibria with randomization, signaling and beliefs, reputation in repeated games, bargaining games, investment hold-up problems, mediation and incentive constraints. Spring 2010.
Economics 30300. Price Theory III. The course begins with expected utility theory, and then introduces the fundamental ideas of game theory: strategic-form games, Nash equilibrium, games with incomplete information, extensive-form games, sequential equilibrium, and repeated games. Then the course will focus on the effects of risk and informational asymmetries in markets and the problems of moral hazard and adverse selection in contract theory. Spring 2010.

[Some other recent courses from past years: Econ 20600, Econ 36102]

Books: Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict, by Roger B. Myerson (Harvard University Press, 1991).
Probability Models for Economic Decisions (Cengage Brook/Cole Duxbury, 2005).
Software: Simtools.xla and Formlist.xla add-ins for Excel, developed to help MBA students do practical analysis of complex risks and decisions using spreadsheet simulation models.

Opinion: An op-ed (Feb 2003) about reasons for accepting international limits on American military power [reviewed in 2007 by David Henderson and Eric Black]. Comments on a book by George Soros (Feb 2004). Essay (July 2007) about game-theoretic benefits of restraint in deterrent strategies (and original notes for a talk at Chicago Humanities Festival 2006). Jerusalem talk (May 2008). A comment on the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize (Oct 2009).
Short essays about building democracy in Iraq: an early proposal (May 2003) written as the occupation began, a later discussion (June 2004) written as occupation ended, and a comment on the draft Iraqi constitution (Sept 2005). (Arabic version of the May 2003 proposal, published by Al Nahdhah, Baghdad.); remarks about Iraq at Beth Emet, the Free Synagogue (June 2006). Essay on the importance of local democracy in Pakistan (June 2009). Short overview of the fundamentals of state-building (Oct 2009).

More information: curriculum vitae, IDEAS, Nobel, UC bibliography, UC news, photo. Email: myerson at uchicago.edu.