- 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
- Enrollment:
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Aalto, Hanken and UH economics students can enroll through their home university’s SISU. Further instructions are available on the How to enroll? page, also for students from other universities.
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Content
The course provides an overview of the issues arising in the economics of information. We learn how information affects decision making, and see how decision makers value information and how they optimally acquire costly information. Then we cover the standard problems of information economics, namely moral hazard, adverse selection and signalling. Understanding how private information and incentives in these problems interact is a prerequisite for understanding many phenomena in labour and financial markets as well as in the field of politics. Finally, we cover some of the following topics: externalities, public goods, auction theory, information transmission, coordination problems, and bank runs.
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