Advanced Contract Theory

As taught in: Spring 2005

Purple tulip in foreground, yellow tulip in background.

Named after the famous tulip bulb auctions of the Netherlands in the 17th century, a Dutch auction proceeds by reducing the price until a buyer is found. To learn more about this type of auction, please see lecture 4 in the lecture notes of this course. (Image courtesy of Aayesha Siddiqui.)

Instructors:

Prof. Sergei Izmalkov

MIT Course Number:

14.129

Level:

Graduate

Course Features

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Course Description

This course focuses on recent developments in contract theory. Topics include: advanced models of moral hazard, adverse selection, mechanism design and incomplete contracts with applications to theory of the firm, organizational design, and financial structure.