Information Economics When individuals make economics decisions, they often have different information than their peers or firms they interact with. This course is designed to analyze how an individual’s private information (or lack thereof) shapes their decision making and strategic interactions. This course introduces students to formal models of asymmetric information which we use to analyze moral hazard, adverse selection, mechanism design, matching, cheap talk, and costly information acquisition. Throughout the course we will study applications of the models we cover including car sales, job search, certification programs, bargaining, auctions, school choice, course selection, and selling user data on tech platforms. (ECON 0255 required, ECON 0280 recommended) 3 hrs.sem.

Microeconomic Theory Microeconomic theory concentrates on the study of the determination of relative prices and their importance in shaping the allocation of resources and the distribution of income in an economy. We will study the optimizing behavior of households in a variety of settings: buying goods and services, saving, and labor supply decisions. We will also examine the behavior of firms in different market structures. Together, the theories of household and firm behavior help illumine contemporary economic issues (discrimination in labor markets, mergers in the corporate world, positive and negative externalities, for example).

Alice Gindin

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I enjoyed professor Gindin's class. She seems very passionate about the subject, however the course material of micro theory is fairly rudimentary and does not provide an opportunity for this to completely shine through. Easy homework, easy tests, very solid lectures. 

Professor Gindin is very nice and straight forward teacher. The problem sets are a bit hard, but doable, and the in class notes are helpful to study. The issue I had was that the classes were a bit boring and monotonous, which made it hard for me to know what was happening. I had to self-teach myself a lot of things for the exam. 

Professor Gindin is very nice and straight forward teacher. The problem sets are fair and the in class notes are easy to follow along to. The issue I had was that the exams were significantly harder than the class notes. The lectures can be very boring and monotonous but more just the material than her teaching style.