Advanced Contract Theory

Purple tulip in foreground, yellow tulip in background.

Named after the famous tulip bulb auctions of the Netherlands in the 17th century, a Dutch auction proceeds by reducing the price until a buyer is found. To learn more about this type of auction, please see lecture 4 in the lecture notes of this course. (Image courtesy of Aayesha Siddiqui.)

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MIT Course Number

14.129

As Taught In

Spring 2005

Level

Graduate

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Course Description

This course focuses on recent developments in contract theory. Topics include: advanced models of moral hazard, adverse selection, mechanism design and incomplete contracts with applications to theory of the firm, organizational design, and financial structure.

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Sergei Izmalkov. 14.129 Advanced Contract Theory. Spring 2005. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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