EITM Materials: Theoretical and Methodological Foundations

This page contains materials for the Theoretical and Methodological Foundations course offered at the Washington University Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute 2009.

• Instructors: Randall Calvert and Andrew Martin
• Syllabus
• more materials available on Summer Institute website

Monday Morning

• Slides [day1_1.pdf]

Monday Afternoon: Equilibrium in strategic games

• Slides on Games in Strategic Form, best response analysis, and equilibrium correspondences
• In case there's time, here are some extra slides on a Tragedy of the Commons game.
• Homework problem (to be discussed on Day 2 afternoon): A Synergistic Relationship

Monday Evening: R Lab Session I

Tuesday Morning

• Slides [day2_1.pdf]
• Maximum Likelihood for the Exponential Distribution [exponential.R]
• Maximum Likelihood for a Linear Regression Model [regressionml.R]
• Maximum Likelihood for the Battle of the Sexes [battleofsexes.R]

Tuesday Afternoon: Backward induction in sequential games

• Solution to yesterday's homework ("a synergistic relationship") from Monday
• New homework for tomorrow: A sequential synergistic relationship.
• Slides on Games in Sequential Form and Backward Induction -- includes homework problem: a sequential version of the "synergistic relationship"
• simulations in R of data and regressions for the committee gatekeeping game under open and closed rules are in these source files:
  • openrule.R
  • closedrule.R
• The Shipan article (applying the committee gatekeeping model to data) referred to in today's session is:
  • Charles R. Shipan, "Regulatory Regimes, Agency Actions, and the Conditional Nature of Congressional Influence." American Political Science Review Volume 98, Issue 03 (August 2004), pp 467-480. From a computer connection on campus, you can click here to obtain via JSTOR.

Tuesday Evening: R Lab Session II

• Example R Program [eitm_lab2.R] <--to be posted
• Birth Weight Stata File [birthwt.dta] <--to be posted

Wednesday Morning

• Slides used in seminar

Wednesday Afternoon: The entry game as a complete DGP

• Solution to the sequential version of "a synergistic relationship" <--to be posted
• Slides on extending backward induction: Chance and simultaneous moves, imperfect information, infinite horizon <--to be posted
• 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 online from a campus computer or if you are a subscriber.

Wednesday Evening: R Lab Session III

• (Bayesian Satistics in R)

Thursday Morning

• nonconj.R

Thursday Afternoon: Comparative statics in a partial DGP

• Slides on implicit differentiation and monotone comparative statics
• Problem Set: an old homework set on the implicit function theorem, due to Ethan BdM
  • Solutions to these problems.
• A partial bibliography of recent political science and other relevant game theory papers employing Monotone Comparative Statics.