ECON 106GIntroduction to Game Theory
Economics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Enrollment priority to Business Economics majors. Introduction to basic ideas of game theory and strategic thinking. Discussion of ideas such as dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, and signaling, with application to examples from economics, politics, business, and other real-life situations.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 101. Enforced corequisite: course 106GL.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ECON 106G
- ECON 101Microeconomic Theory
- ECON 106GLIntroduction to Game Theory Laboratory
2 direct requisites. Showing 8 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
ECON 106G
- ECON 106GLIntroduction to Game Theory Laboratory
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.