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Topics in Mechanism and Market Design
ECON 2049

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Description

This is a course in mechanism and market design covering methods, classical and modern theoretical results, applications, and possibly also related experimental work. Topics will include Bayesian, dominant-strategy and ex-post incentive compatibility, optimal and efficient auctions (the general independent private value case and beyond), topics in extensive-form mechanism design (with a focus on simplicity and credibility), matching mechanisms, and topics in robust mechanism design. Additional topics may be added depending on student interest and time permitting. Prerequisites: Microeconomic theory at the level of the first-year PhD sequence.

Course Notes

Prerequisites: Microeconomic theory at the level of the first-year PhD sequence.

School Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits 4
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Department Economics
Course Component Lecture
Subject Economics
Grading Basis FAS Letter Graded
General Education N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data N/A
Divisional Distribution Social Sciences
Course Level Primarily for Graduate Students