Economics 20600. Economics of Information. This course begins with a short section on uncertainty: risk aversion, contingent claims, gambling, and risk sharing. It then proceeds to the study of various adverse-selection and moral-hazard problems. Specific applications include job-market signaling, insurance markets, search models, and sovereign debt. Mathematical models are emphasized throughout the course. Fall 2007.
Economics 30200b. Price Theory IIb. This half of the course begins with expected utility theory, and then introduces the fundamental ideas of game theory: strategic-form games, Nash equilibrium, games with incomplete information, extensive-form games, and sequential equilibrium. Winter 2008, second half.