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- Code:
- ECOM-438/DPE9438
- Field:
- Microeconomics
- Targets:
- Master’s students Research Master's students PhD students
- Organiser:
- University of Helsinki - Economics
- Instructor:
- Klaus Kultti
- Period:
- Period 4
- Format:
- Lecture
- Method:
- Contact teaching
- Venue:
- Economicum
- Enrollment:
In case of conflicting information consider the Sisu/Course/Moodle pages the primary source of information.
Aalto and Hanken 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.
Please note that there is a different code for UH PhD students: DPE-9438
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For more information on how to activate your UH user ID and register for a Moodle course area, click here.
Content
The course covers technical requirements, one-person optimal search theory, general equilibrium type search theory, directed search theory and applications to labour markets, monetary theory, and the problem of trading mechanisms. The exact list of topics as well as the associated literature varies from year to year, and will be made available sometime before the course starts.
Learning outcomes
After the course, the student should
- Be able to solve and construct one person optimal search problems.
- Understand dynamic models of search and directed search in areas of labour economics and monetary economics, and understand how the set-up can be used to address questions ranging from marriage markets to the choice of trading mechanisms
- Doctoral students should be able to actively do all the above.