ECON 4907

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ECON 4907
The Economics of Asymmetric Information and Contracts

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog.

This course provides an introduction to the economics of asymmetric information, contracts and mechanism design. Topics covered include: bilateral contracting problems with moral hazard and/or adverse selection, bargaining with asymmetric information, the design of optimal auctions and other multilateral mechanisms, signaling and incomplete contacts. Prerequisites include intermediate microeconomics and statistics. The student is expected to be comfortable with basic probability (random variables, expectation, independence, and conditional probability) and calculus.


Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: ECON 3030 and ECON 3130, or equivalents.

Permission Note Enrollment preference given to: juniors and seniors.

Distribution Category (SSC-AS) (SBA-AG)

When Offered Fall.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18927 ECON 4907   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person