2025/2026

Contracts, Information and Incentives in Organizations

ID 1110039

Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'

Type: Optional course (faculty)

Delivered by: Undergraduate Programmes Curriculum Support

Where: Faculty of Economic Sciences

When: 4 module

Open to: students of one campus

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 28

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This course provides an introduction to the Economics of Information. This field was a revolution in economics, overturning long standing presumptions, including the one of market efficiency. This had deep implications for economic policy. Economics of Information looks at situations where one of the parties has private information. How should the parties best cope with this situation? We will draw illustrations from various fields, including industrial organization, political economy, and labor economics. The core of the course is theoretical but we will also cover empirical applications of the theory and real case studies of firms.