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INFOSYS 231 
CCN: 42717 
3 unit(s) 
Economics of Information 

Instructor(s) Yale Braunstein
E-mail: yale@sims.berkeley.edu
Office: 203B South Hall

Time/Location W 10:00 - 12:00
202 South Hall 

Schedule, readings, etc.

September 20 -- Guest lecture: John Chuang on network economics

Readings  (see also Section K of the course outline):

Pricing the Internet [PDF], Hal Varian and Jeff MacKie-Mason. We describe the technology and costs of the Internet, then discuss how to design efficient pricing in order to allocate
scarce Internet resources. We offer a "smart market" as a device to efficiently
price congestion.  URL:
 http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jmm/papers/Pricing_the_Internet.pdf

Usage Pricing FAQs [PDF],  Hal Varian and  Jeff MacKie-Mason. Written for WWW '94 (Chicago), which answers some frequently asked questions about usage-sensitive pricing for Internet resources.  URL:
 http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jmm/papers/useFAQs/useFAQs.pdf

September 27 -- Topics  (with sections from the course outline) October 4 -- Topics October 11 -- Proposal for both research paper and presentation due. Click here for additional information. October 18 -- October 25 -- Guest lecture: Hal Varian on "How much information"

November 1 and later -- Class presentations

December 6 -- (Last class) Research papers due

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