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14.11 Putting Social Sciences to the Test: Field Experiments in Economics, Spring 2006
(2006-06)14.11 is a new class on the topic of field (that is, 'in situ') and laboratory experiments in the social sciences - both what these experiments have taught and can teach us and how to conduct them. -
14.11 Special Topics in Economics: The Challenge of World Poverty, Fall 2006
(2006-12)This is a course for those who are interested in the challenge posed by massive and persistent world poverty, have had some economics, and believe that economists might have something useful to say about this question. The ... -
14.12 Economic Applications of Game Theory, Fall 2002
(2002-12)Analysis of strategic behavior in multi-person economic settings. Introduction to Nash equilibrium and its refinements: subgame-perfect equilibrium and sequential equilibrium. Applications drawn from labor economics, the ... -
14.12 Economic Applications of Game Theory, Fall 2005
(2005-12)Game Theory is a misnomer for Multiperson Decision Theory, the analysis of situations in which payoffs to agents depend on the behavior of other agents. It involves the analysis of conflict, cooperation, and (tacit) ... -
14.121 Microeconomic Theory I, Fall 2005
(2005-12)This course provides an introduction to microeconomic theory and is the first course in the microeconomic theory series. It is intended for graduate students in the economics program. Some components of the course are ... -
14.121 Microeconomic Theory I, Fall 2008
(2008-12)Theories of production and individual choice (under certainty and uncertainty); markets and competition; tools of comparative statics and their application to price theory. -
14.121 Microeconomic Theory I, Fall 2009
(2009-12)This half-semester course provides an introduction to microeconomic theory designed to meet the needs of students in the economics Ph.D. program. Some parts of the course are designed to teach material that all graduate ... -
14.123 Microeconomic Theory III, Spring 2001
(2001-06)General equilibrium, capital theory, incomplete markets, externalities, public goods. From the course web page: Course Description The central topic of this course is the theory of general equilibrium and its applications ... -
14.123 Microeconomic Theory III, Spring 2005
(2005-06)The central topic of this course is the theory of general equilibrium and its applications and extensions. -
14.123 Microeconomic Theory III, Spring 2009
(2009-06)This half-semester course discusses decision theory and topics in game theory. We present models of individual decision-making under certainty and uncertainty. Topics include preference orderings, expected utility, risk, ... -
14.123 Microeconomic Theory III, Spring 2010
(2010-06)This is a half-semester course which covers the topics in Microeconomic Theory that everybody with a Ph.D. from MIT Economics Department should know but that have not yet been covered in the Micro sequence. Hence, it covers ... -
14.124 Microeconomic Theory IV, Spring 2003
(2003-06)The topic of the class is information economics. The purpose is to give an introduction to some of the main subjects in this field: risk sharing, moral hazard, adverse selection (signaling, screening), mechanism design, ... -
14.126 Game Theory, Fall 2002
(2002-12)How should economic agents act when their optimal decisions depend on what they expect other agents to do? We study various models of equilibrium, which correspond to different ways that the agents might make their decisions, ... -
14.126 Game Theory, Fall 2004
(2004-12)This course is a rigorous investigation of the evolutionary and epistemic foundations of solution concepts, such as rationalizability and Nash equilibrium. It covers classical topics, such as repeated games, bargaining, ... -
14.126 Game Theory, Spring 2010
(2010-06)This course is a rigorous investigation of the evolutionary and epistemic foundations of solution concepts, such as rationalizability and Nash equilibrium. It covers classical topics, such as repeated games, bargaining, ... -
14.127 Behavioral Economics and Finance, Spring 2004
(2004-06)This course surveys research which incorporates psychological evidence into economics. Topics include: prospect theory, biases in probabilistic judgment, self-control and mental accounting with implications for consumption ... -
14.129 Advanced Contract Theory, Spring 2005
(2005-06)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, ... -
14.13 Economics and Psychology, Spring 2004
(2004-06)This course integrates psychological insights into economic models of behavior. It discusses the limitations of standard economic models and surveys the ways in which psychological experiments have been used to learn about ... -
14.15J / 6.207J Networks, Fall 2009
(2009-12)Networks are ubiquitous in our modern society. The World Wide Web that links us to and enables information flows with the rest of the world is the most visible example. It is, however, only one of many networks within which ... -
14.23 Government Regulation of Industry, Spring 2003
(2003-06)The objective of this course is to introduce you to the role of government in markets where competitive equilibria “fail.” In this course we will emphasize the importance of market structure and industrial ...