Digital Markets (6 cr)

Code:
ECON-C5100
Field:
Microeconomics
Target:
Bachelor's students
Organiser:
Aalto University
Instructor:
Iivo Vehviläinen
Period:
Period 1
Format:
Lecture
Method:
Contact teaching
Venue:
Otaniemi campus
Enrollment:

In case of conflicting information consider the Sisu/MyCourses pages the primary source of information.

Hanken and UH economics students can enroll in their home university’s SISU! Further instructions can be found on the How to enroll? page, also for other students.

Before taking and completing the course make sure that the credits can be counted towards your degree at your home university by checking which courses are included in your curriculum or by contacting your home university’s student/learning services.

  • To access the course workspace, use all the features and participate in the activities (assignments, discussions), you must have successfully registered for the course in Sisu and logged in with your Aalto user ID.
  • For more information on how to activate your Aalto user ID and register for a MyCourses course area, click here.

Economic approch for analyzing strategic interactions between firms, introduction to auction theory with emphasis on online advertisement auctions, and preliminaries of network effects and platform economics. Practical applications are used to illustrate how digital and online markets differ from traditional markets, what economic theories are behind successful online platforms, and where and how markets should be regulated.

At the end of the course the student has learned to understand and analyze firm decisions and strategies in online and digital markets through the lens of economics.