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INFOSYS 231
CCN: 42717
3 unit(s) |
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Economics of Information |
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| Instructor(s) |
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Yale
Braunstein
E-mail: yale@sims.berkeley.edu
Office: 203B South Hall |
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| Time/Location |
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W 10:00 - 12:00
202 South Hall |
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(Last updated 21 September 2000)
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)
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Baumol on unbalanced growth (B)
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Hayes & Erickson (A3)
October 4 -- Topics
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Costs & benefits (maybe) (C)
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Pricing (D)
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Coase's theorem (E.1)
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
Assignments, files, etc.
General Information
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This course is for graduate students only. Preference will
be given for SIMS students and students in the MOT program. Permission
of the instructor required for all other students.
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Prerequisites:
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Engineering students -- This is also ENG 298A, Section 6. (The CCN
is 28197; 3 units. THIS IS A NEW COURSE NUMBER AND CCN AS OF 9/21/00.)
The prerequisites are courses in macro- and micro-economics or the permission
of the instructor.
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Haas students -- This is also BA
296.9. The prerequisites are 201A and 201B or the equivalents
or the permission of the instructor.
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SIMS students -- A link to the course description is above. The
prerequisites are courses in macro- and micro-economics or the permission
of the instructor.
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Class format: Mix of lectures and student-led classes
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Required readings: Mix of course reader and additional readings
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The course reader is now available at Copy Central on Bancroft.
Basis for final grade: Research paper, class presentations, and
class participation. Click
here for additional information.
