Approximate syllabus:
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Lecture notes on mechanism design with transfers (includes fundamentals of mechanism
design, optimal auction design, and bilateral trading): [Download].
Lecture notes on strategic voting (includes Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem, basic matching theory, single-peaked
domain, and randomized voting in unrestricted domains): [Download].
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Recommended readings:
"Internet Advertising and the Generalized Second-Price Auction:
Selling Billions of Dollars Worth of Keywords" by Edelman, Ostrovsky, and Schwarz, AER, Vol. 97, 2007 -
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"House Allocation with Existing Tenants" by Abdulkadiroglu and Sonmez, JET, Vol. 88, 1999 -
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End-term Examination 2011: [Download].
Mid-term Examination 2011: [Download].
End-term Examination 2010: [Download].
Mid-term Examination 2010: [Download].
Examination of 2009: [Download].
Examination of 2008: [Download].
Last Updated: November 10, 2011.
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