Econ519

Notices

1. Meetings are Friday, 12:30-2:30. I'll put the room here as soon as I get one.
2. Week 1, September (Friday the) 13th. We'll start with Terri's ring game experiment. The experiment itself is easy to follow, and you can view it by opening ring_game.ipynb in a jupyter notebook. Use the username student and the password student. To get it to work you'll also need the the data for the experiment. You can read how to get it on vse.syzygy.ca by looking at the link https://montoya.econ.ubc.ca/wiki/Syzygy|Econ600|1. Thanks to Terri Kneeland for the data and permission to use it. Her paper is at Identifying Higher Order Rationality

Topics in Micro

1. Competing Mechanisms
   • Competing Mechanisms
   • Survey
2. Experiment - Ultimatum Game
   • jupyter notebook
3. Bayes Nash Equilibrium - Approximation
   • Jason Hartline - worst case surplus
4. Matching
   • Lecture Notes for deferred acceptance
   • Vancouver School Board matching algorith notebook
   • Econjobmarket Network
   • Directed Search notebook (sagemath)
   • Directed Search - large game theory
5. Experiment - Revealed Preference
   • (reading to come)
6. Experiment - Ring Game, Terri Kneeland
   • Paper
   • jupyter notebook
   • a short note explaining the game
7. Dynamic Mechanisms
   • [Sequential Screening] (https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/campuspress.yale.edu/dist/3/352/files/2013/01/2000-sequential-screening.pdf)
   • [Selling to Overconfident Consumers] (https://www2.bc.edu/michael-grubb/aer.99.5.pdf)
8. Committee Decision-making
   • [Conflicts, Common Interests in Committees] (https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.91.5.1478)
   • The value of information in the court: Get it right, keep it tight
9. Assortative Matching with Search
   • [Assortative Matching and Search] (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0262.00112)
   • [Assortative Matching with Explicit Search Costs] (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1468-0262.2006.00678.x)
   • [Identifying Sorting - In Theory] (https://academic.oup.com/restud/article/78/3/872/1569928)
10. Ranking Methods
    • Axioms Characterizing the Google Page Rank Altman and Tenneholtz
    • check out the various jupyter notebooks associated with applying page rank to outcome data using the command svn co https://montoya.econ.ubc.ca/svn-econ/Econ515/notebooks/ejm/
    • axioms for ranking journals by Huerta and Volij May 2004 Econometrica
11. Vizing Theorem - graph coloring with an application to scheduling