Microeconomics of Uncertainty

The course provides students with the basic tools for the analysis of strategic behavior in economic and social settings.
The focus will be on the microeconomic fundamentals of individual choice under uncertainty and under strategic interaction with other individuals, taken both as separate and as combined issues.
The course will combine mathematical rigor and economic intuition to address fascinating questions about the behavior of economic agents.

By the end of the course students will learn how to analyze in a rigorous way the behavior of individuals under conditions of uncertainty and in contexts of strategic interaction.
Students will be able to model and analyze situations of economic and social interaction using the tools of game theory, discuss and predict the strategic behavior of agents in complex environments, and critically comprehend existing economic models.