ECON 1465 - Market Design: Theory and Applications

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Brown University

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This course studies the design of organized markets, focusing on efficient organization and the incentives created by market rules. The analysis relies on a mix of documenting the rules of real-world markets, game theoretic analysis, empirical analysis, and experimental work. Applications include: online auction markets (e.g., eBay, Amazon); ad auctions (e.g., Google); matching markets, including matching students to schools, matching workers to jobs (e.g., medical residents to hospitals, lawyers to clerkship positions), matching kidney donors to recipients, and online dating. Prerequisites: ECON 1110 or 1130; MATH 0060, 0070, 0090, 0100, 0170, 0180, 0190, 0200, or 0350; or instructor permission. Enrollment limited to 25 juniors, seniors, and graduate students.

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0.00 - 1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.brown.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 863-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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