For students:

Microeconomics 2 (5 cr)

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Code:
ECOM-G311
Field:
Microeconomics
Target:
Master’s students
Organiser:
University of Helsinki - Economics
Instructor:
Klaus Kultti
Period:
Period 2
Format:
Lecture
Method:
Contact teaching
Venue:
Economicum building
Enrollment:
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Content

The course provides an overview of the issues arising in the economics of information. We cover the problems of moral hazard, adverse selection and signalling. Understanding how private information and incentives in these problems interact is a prerequisite for understanding many of the problems in labour and financial markets as well as in the field of politics. We also cover problems related to externalities and some auction theory.

Teaching

  • Schedule: can be found in Course Page and Sisu
  • Study materials: can be found in Moodle
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University-specific instructions

Aalto University Students
  • Code: no equivalent code
  • Target groups: MSc (not suitable for PhD students)
  • Credit points: 5
  • Credit transfer: apply for inclusion in Sisu
Hanken Students
  • Code: 26061
  • Target groups: MSc (not suitable for PhD students)
  • Credit points: 5 cr
  • Credit transfer: apply for substitution in Sisu
University of Helsinki Students

  • Code: ECOM-G311

  • Target groups: MSc (not suitable for rMSc and PhD students)

  • Credit points: 5

FDPE Students Students

  • Not suitable for PhD students

Learning outcomes

After the course, the student should:

  • Be familiar with main problems in the economics of information as well as the standard modelling techniques.
  • Understand the mechanisms behind standard problems of information economics: adverse selection, moral hazard and signalling