Topics in Mechanism and Market Design

Harvard FAS

This is a course in mechanism and market design covering methods, classical and modern theoretical results, applications, and possibly also related experimental work. Topics will include Bayesian, dominant-strategy and ex-post incentive compatibility, optimal and efficient auctions (the general independent private value case and beyond), topics in extensive-form mechanism design (with a focus on simplicity and credibility), matching mechanisms, and topics in robust mechanism design.…