EITM Materials: Theoretical and Methodological
Foundations
Washington University, St. Louis
June 13-16, 2011
This page contains links to materials for the Theoretical and Methodological
Foundations course of the NSF-sponsored Summer Workshop in EITM, Washington University St. Louis, Monday June 13 through Wednesday June 16, 2011.
Monday Morning: EITM tools
First session: Strategic games
- Lecture slides (as PDF slides)
- Homework exercises as PDF: (1) equilibrium correspondence in a PD; (2) a synergistic relationship
Second session: Probability models
Monday Afternoon: Some basic techniques
First session: Maximum likelihood estimation
- Lecture slides (as PDF slides)
- Homework exercises as PDF: (1) equilibrium correspondence in a PD; (2) a synergistic relationship
Second session: Sequential games and strategic effects in the data
- Lecture slides (as PDF slides)
- Homework exercise as PDF: A sequential synergistic relationship.
- Committee gatekeeping game
- R code for simulation of open rule version
- R code for simulation of closed rule version
- Charles R. Shipan, "Regulatory Regimes, Agency Actions, and the Conditional Nature of Congressional Influence." American Political Science Review Volume 98, Issue 3 (August 2004), pp 467-480. Click here to obtain via JSTOR if you are on the WU campus.
Monday Lab Session: R programming I
Tuesday Morning: Statistical Formulations of Uncertainty in Games
- Solutions to homework exercises from Monday
- Strategic games solutions (as PDF slides)
- Sequential version of the synergistic relationship: solution (as PDF slides)
- Lecture slides on sources of uncertainty and their implications for specifying statistical models (as PDF slides)
- Homework exercise as separate PDF slides: Reflecting sources of uncertainty in the construction of statistical models.
- Today's session relies heavily on the following Signorino article:
- Curtis S. Signorino, "Structure and Uncertainty in Discrete Choice Models." Political Analysis Vol. 11 issue 4 (Autumn 2003), pp. 316-344. You can obtain this from Oxford Journals Online if you are on the WU campus.
- A brief bibliography of recent political science articles deriving statistical models explicitly from the distributional assumptions incorporated into an underlying game theory model.
Tuesday Afternoon: Bayesian Inference and Simulation
Tuesday Lab Session: R programming II
Wednesday Morning: Comparative statics in a partial DGP
- Solutions to yesterday's problems on sources of uncertainty (as PDF slides)
- Lecture slides on implicit differentiation and monotone comparative statics (as PDF slides)
- Problem Set: an old homework set on the implicit function theorem, due to Ethan Bueno de Mesquita (PDF)
- Readings on which today's session is primarily based:
- Carl P. Simon and Lawrence Blume, Mathematics for Economists, Chapter 15, "Implicit Functions and Their Derivatives." New York: Norton (1994).
- Scott Ashworth and Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, "Monotone Comparative Statics for Models of Politics." American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 50, No. 1 (Jan. 2006), pp. 214-231. You can obtain this from JSTOR if you are on the WU campus.
- A partial bibliography of recent political science and other relevant game theory papers employing Monotone Comparative Statics.
Wednesday Afternoon: Bayesian MCMC
Wednesday Lab Session: R programming III