Microeconomic Theory IV
14.124 · Economics · Graduate · Spring 2017
Prof. Bengt Holmstrom
The topic of the class is information and contract theory. The purpose is to give an introduction to some of the main subjects in this field: decision making under uncertainty, risk sharing, moral hazard, adverse selection, mechanism design, and incomplete contracting.
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