Strategic Behavior System Area
Human beings are the constituent member of society, and “human decision-making/strategic behaviors” are the basis of all social sciences. In the Strategic Behavior System area, students learn the theory of human decision-making/strategic behaviors from various angles. They also experience human strategic behaviors in socio-economics using computers during seminars. It is particularly recommended that students in this area take [Microeconomics] and [Game Theory] as core courses.
| Course name | Course description | Target year |
|---|---|---|
| Seminar in SEP: Strategy and Behavior Area | This course is to learn basic concepts and methods of statistical processing using the statistical analysis program SPSS through exercises. | 2 – 4 |
| Game Theory | This course examines the mathematical and computational foundations of such multiagent systems where agents are assumed to be self-interested. The course offers the main ideas of game theory and shows how they can be used to understand economic, social phenomena. | 2 – 4 |
| Decision Theory | In this course, students will learn the basic concepts needed to model various decision-making problems in socio-economic issues, including utility models, risk attitudes, trade-offs, social and group decision-making. Students will also learn risk management techniques through insurance. | 2 – 4 |
| Evolutionary Game Theory | This course will provide an overview of Darwin’s evolution theory and learning theories, which have had a great impact on social science. Students will study some example cases to learn the basics of evolutionary game theory, and pursue the mechanism, by which human evolution and learning (adaptation) produce familiar social phenomena. | 2 – 4 |
| Behavioral Economics | Approaching human economic behavior from a psychological aspect, we will review the philosophy of economic behavior and the various factors that influence economic behavior. | 2 – 4 |
| Microeconomics | This course will give lectures on resource allocation in a perfectly competitive market. | 2 – 4 |
| Empirical Microeconomics | Students will learn the foundations of applied/empirical microeconomics and the pros and cons of reduced-form versus structural estimation approaches, using the discrete-continuous choice framework as a motivating example. The course will focus on the identification and estimation of two classic models: Roy model and Rust model. | 2 – 4 |