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 really enjoyed taking a course with Gindin. She is a fair professor and provides guided notes for each week that help a lot with problem sets. You have weekly quizzes but they are pretty easy, and exams are very fair.

Professor Gindin was always very attentive and engaging. The class was heavily revolved around readings and subsequent discussions, with the next half of the class being lecture style. It was also interactive, making a 3 hour class very do-able.

This course was very doable as long as you are willing to put in the work. Professor Gindin is clear during lectures and the notes are easy to follow along with. The exams definitely require studying, but they are very similar to the problem sets.