Lecture on Market Design — Master of Economics

General Information

• Syllabus
• Be careful, the location changed, it is now room 2E34.
• There is no class on October 3.
• On September 29, the class will be from 2pm to 5pm, about procurement auctions. Guest instructor: Nicolas Fugger (University of Cologne).
• On December 15, the class will be from 2pm to 5pm, about kidney exchange. Guest instructor: Victor Hiller (Panthéon-Assas University).

Evaluation

The evaluation is based on a referee report for an academic paper. Two lists of papers are available. You can alternatively suggest another paper.

• Reading list on auction design
• Reading list on matching markets

Course Materials

• Introduction to market design
• Chapter 2: Single-unit Auctions
• Chapter 3: Case study: Procurement auctions, guest instructor: Nicolas Fugger (University of Cologne)
• Chapter 4: Case study — An analysis of eBay
• Chapter 5: Common Values
• Chapter 6: Vickrey-Clarke-Groves Auction, and annoted slides.
• Chapter 7: Case study — Keywords Auctions
• Chapter 8: Case study — Spectrum Auctions
• Chapter 9: Matching Models — School Choice
• Chapter 10: Matching Models — Housing Market

Other Material

• Online seminar: Virtual Market Design Seminar and its Youtube channel.
• Al Roth's blog
• Tips of Shengwu Li, on how to give an economic theory talk.