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SI 680 - Contracting and Signaling

Course prepares you to advise clients or your own organization on the design of contracts and screening policies when one of the parties has an information advantage over the other. For example, students study the design of patent licenses (the licensor knows more about the market), the design of social systems to reduce spam (the spam sender knows more about the content before the recipient decides whether to read), and the design of performance contracts for professional services (e.g., consultants, contract programmers, etc., when the contractor knows more than the employer about her level of effort). This course follows SI 646.

Prerequisite(s): SI 562 & 563 or equivalent course in intermediate microeconomics

Instructor: Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason

dScribe: Kathleen Ludewig

Course Level: Graduate

Course Structure: 3 hour class once a week for 7 weeks

Date Added to MERLOT:: August 28, 2012
Created by:: Open Michigan
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SI 680 Contracting and Signaling- Reading List (Reference Material)
SI 680 Contracting and Signaling- Syllabus (Reference Material)
SI 680 Contracting and Signaling- Week 01 Case Study: When is Information Strategically Critical? (Assignment) (Case Study)
SI 680 Contracting and Signaling- Week 01: Introduction to Incentive Centered Design (ICD) (Presentation)
SI 680 Contracting and Signaling- Week 02 Case Study: Venture Capital Contracting (Assignment) (Case Study)
SI 680 Contracting and Signaling- Week 02 Lecture Notes: Base (Symmetric Information) Model for Contract Theory (ICD) (Assignment)
SI 680 Contracting and Signaling- Week 02: Hidden Action I (Presentation)
SI 680 Contracting and Signaling- Week 03 Lecture Notes: Hidden Action Contract: Example (Assignment)
SI 680 Contracting and Signaling- Week 03 Lecture Notes: Hiden Action I: Contracting Model with Asymmetric Information (Assignment)
SI 680 Contracting and Signaling- Week 03: Incentive Pay (Presentation)
SI 680 Contracting and Signaling- Week 04 Case Study: Tech Transfer Licensing (Assignment) (Case Study)
SI 680 Contracting and Signaling- Week 04 Case Study: Tech Transfer Licensing (Notes) (Case Study)
SI 680 Contracting and Signaling- Week 04 Lecture Notes: Hidden Characteristics I: Base Model (Assignment)
SI 680 Contracting and Signaling- Week 04 Lecture Notes: Hidden Characteristics I: Lemons Market Example (Assignment)
SI 680 Contracting and Signaling- Week 05 Case Study: RIM Software Licensing (Assignment) (Case Study)
SI 680 Contracting and Signaling- Week 05 Case Study: RIM Software Licensing (Key) (Case Study)
SI 680 Contracting and Signaling- Week 05 Lecture Notes: Hidden Characteristics II: Versioning (Assignment)
SI 680 Contracting and Signaling- Week 05: Hidden Characteristics: Applications (Presentation)
SI 680 Contracting and Signaling- Week 06 Case Study: Screening Pollution at Digg.com (Assignment) (Case Study)
SI 680 Contracting and Signaling- Week 06 Lecture Notes: Hidden Characteristics III: Signaling (Assignment)
SI 680 Contracting and Signaling- Week 06: Signaling (Presentation)