Microeconomic Theory IV

A man stands at a table and writes on a piece of paper.

A man signs a contract. Contract theory, the study of how businesses and people create and develop legal agreements, is discussed at length in this course. (Image courtesy of Olu Eletu on Unsplash.)

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14.124

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Spring 2017

Level

Graduate

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Course Description

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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Bengt Holmstrom. 14.124 Microeconomic Theory IV. Spring 2017. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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