Microeconomics: Pricing

31E11100

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Overview

Amongst the topics covered in the course are: Price discrimination, failure of law of one price, bundling and versioning, revenue management, auctions and market design.

Teaching

  • Completion method: contact teaching
  • Schedule: can be found in Sisu
  • Study materials: can be found in MyCourses
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University-specific instructions

    • Code: 31E11100

    • Target groups: MSc / rMSc / PhD students: please contact your supervisor/program director to be sure that the course credit can be counted towards your degree

    • Credit points: 6

    • Code: 26016

      • can be also used to substitute the mandadatory course 26034 Applied Microeconomics, 5 cr

    • Target groups: MSc / rMSc / PhD students: please contact your supervisor/program director to be sure that the course credit can be counted towards your degree

    • Credit points:

      • 26016: 6 cr

      • 26034: 5 cr

    • Credit transfer: apply for substitution in Sisu

    Further instructions (link to be added here later)

    • Code: ECOM-445 (MSc)

    • Target groups: MSc / rMSc (/ PhD students: please contact your supervisor/program director to be sure that the course credit can be counted towards your degree)

    • Credit points: 6

    • Credit transfer: apply for substitution in Sisu

    Further instructions (link to be added here later)

    • Please contact your supervisor/program director to be sure that the course credit can be counted towards your degree

    • Credit transfer: please apply for credit transfer according to your home university's procedures

    Further instructions (link to be added here later).

Learning outcomes

This course provides an introduction into the theory and practice of pricing. Theoretical concepts from information economics and game theory are applied in a variety of applications with relevance to market design and real world managerial problems.