Course description
This mini course is an introduction to research in applied theory with a focus on information, incentives and specific applications to online markets.
This is a tools & application course. We start with classic papers (and read them in detail – formal arguments included). We then proceed to applications to digital markets. The idea is to read together very recent papers at the frontier. The list may vary according to the class interests.
Topics covered include: design and advertising of digital products, strategic incentives for information intermediaries, design of algorithms, incentives of financial markets persuasion and privacy regulation.
The syllabus is just provisional. The list of papers may change subject to class interest and time.
Assessment methods
70%: Assignments (referee report and/or presentations and/or discussion of papers). 30%: Final written exam.
Part I) Information economics (Sessions 1-3)
Motivation & Tools (signaling models)
Information design in markets
Strategic information transmission
Part II) Information in digital markets: Prv (Sessions 3-5)