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- Code:
- ECON-L2400
- Field:
- Microeconomics
- Targets:
- Research Master's students PhD students
- Organiser:
- Aalto University
- Instructor:
- Pauli Murto
- Period:
- Period 4
- Format:
- Lecture
- Method:
- Contact Teaching
- Venue:
- Economicum
- Enrollment:
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Content
- Adverse selection and mechanism design.
- Moral hazard and imperfect monitoring.
- Dynamic models of incomplete information including signaling and cheap talk.
- Selected applications, for example: auctions, bargaining, market microstructure, reputation formation.
Learning outcomes
This course introduces the students to topics and methods in modern information economics at the graduate level. After taking this course, the students are familiar with the analytical techniques used in microeconomics and have the necessary skills for modeling interactions under incomplete information.