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Topics in Microeconomic Theory

Code: ECO-3106-1

Faculty: Arunava Sen

Course outline:

This is a course in economic theory based on the axiomatic method. It will cover classical topics in preference aggregation, strategic voting, matching, bargaining and resource allocation.

Specific topics, in the rough order that we will discuss them, are the following.

 

  1. Strategic Voting: The Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem.
  2. Restricted Domains and Single-Peaked Preferences: Generalized Median Voter Theorems.
  3.  Matching: (i) One-sided matching: Priority and Top-Trading Cycle Rules (ii) Two-sided matching: the Gale-Shapley Deferred Acceptance Algorithm.
  4. Voting Methods and the Aggregation of Preferences: The Arrow Impossibility Theorem.

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