Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät


Topics in Microeconomics

Industrial Organization, Auctions, and Incentives
Description Table of contents Exercises/Slides Errata

Table of Contents
I. Imperfect Competition
Chapter 1: Monopoly
Chapter 2: Regulation of Monopoly
Chapter 3: Oligopoly and Industrial Organization
II. Risk, Stochastic Dominance, and Risk Aversion
Chapter 4: Stochastic Dominance - Theory
Chapter 5: Stochastic Dominance - Applications
Chapter 6: Risk Aversion
III. Incomplete Information and Incentives
Chapter 7: Matching - The Marriage Problem
Chapter 8: Auctions
Chapter 9: Hidden Information and Adverse Selection
Chapter 10: Hidden Information and Signaling
Chapter 11: Hidden Action and Moral Hazard
Chapter 12: Rank-Order Tournaments
IV. Technical Supplements
A: Nonlinear Optimization - The Classical Approach
B: Inequality Constrained Optimization
C: Convexity and Generalizations
D: From Expected Values to Order Statistics