The Economics of Auctions: Theory and Empirics
CAS EC 446
Undergraduate prerequisites: CASEC 201, EC 203, EC 204, and CASMA 121 or the equivalent, CASWR 120 First-Year Writing Seminar. - Auctions are everywhere and are used to allocate government contracts, Treasury bonds, digital advertising, and many other goods. This course teaches the theory of optimal bidding and auction design and pairs it with hands-on empirical analysis of real bid data, culminating in an individual research paper.
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