Course Catalog - 2006-2007

     

ECON 509 - MICROECONOMICS III

Long Title: MICROECONOMICS III
Department: Economics
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 5
Prerequisite(s): ECON 501 AND ECON 508
Description: Social choice and preference aggregation. Cardinal welfarism Bargaining: axiomatic and strategic models. Cooperative games: core stability and coalition formation, Shapley value, cost and surplus sharing. Mechanism design: dominant strategy, strategy-proof voting, fair division, and cost sharing; implementation in Nash, Strong, and Bayesian Equilibrium.