Dr. P.V. Viswanath

pviswanath@pace.edu

ECO 826: Doctoral Concentration Seminar in Economics
Assignments, Spring 2006

Assignment 1

• Assignments to discuss over the web – due April 21:
  Convert Cash Flow: ‘Pay to Play’ is Banned, But Muni-Bond Firms Keep the Game Going into a formal game theory model. This is supposed to be a Prisoner’s Dilemma.
• Chapter 2: Problem 2.1, 2.4, 2.5

• Readings:
  • Lachman, Judith. “Knowing and Showing Economics and Law,” p. 50
  • The Horatii and the Curiatii, p. 47: convert into a model.

Assignment 2

• Read Chapters 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 in the Readings book
• Diamond, 1984
• Diamond, 1989
• Baron and Besanko, 1984
• Assignments to discuss over the web – due
  • Chapter 3: Problems 3.2, 3.5
    

Assignment 3

• Assignment:
  • Problems 4.2, 4.3
  • Problems 5.1, 5.2, 5.6

Assignment 4

• Assignments:
  • Problems 6.2, 6.3
  • Problems 7.1, 7.2, 7.3