Contracts, Bargaining, and Theories of the Firm

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• Hidden Information and Self-Selection

• Optimal Contracting

Social Planner's Problem

• Mechanism Design with Multiple Informed Parties

The Multiple-Volunteers Principle

• Signalling

• Market Screening

• Hidden Action (Part 1)

Notes on the Bivariate Normal Distribution by Bertsekas and Tsitsiklis

• Hidden Action (Part 2)

• Bargaining

• Theories of the Firm

• Reading List

• Bargaining and Contracts Questions

• Price Discrimination Illustration

• Hassles vs. Prices

• Links to papers analyzing whether and why economists behave differently: Link 1, Link 2, Link 3

• 2018 exam questions and answers

• 2019 exam question and answer

• Advice on MPhil Theses in Microeconomic Theory and Behavioral Economics