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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 4957yesCoursera

The Syllabus

Videos
  • An Introduction to the Course
  • 1.1 Social Choice: Taste
  • 1.2 Social Choice: Voting Scheme 
  • 1.3 Paradoxical Outcomes
  • 1.4 Impossibility of Non-Paradoxical Social Welfare Functions
  • 1.5 Arrow's Theorem
  • 1.6 Impossibility of Non-Pardoxical Social Choice Functions
  • 1.7 Single-Peaked Preferences
Reading
  • Syllabus
Practice Exercises
  • Problem Set 1
  • Unit 1.2 Quiz
  • Unit 1.3 Quiz
  • Unit 1.5 Quiz

Videos
  • 2.1 Mechanism Design: Taste
  • 2.2 Implementation 
  • 2.3 Mechanism Design: Examples
  • 2.4 Revelation Principle 
  • 2.5 Revelation Principle: Examples
  • 2.6 Impossibility of General Dominant-Strategy Implementation
  • 2.7 Transferable Utility
  • 2.8 Transferable Utility Example
  • 2.9 Mechanism Design as an Optimization Problem
Reading
  • Reading on the theory of Mechanism Design
Practice Exercises
  • Problem Set 2
  • Unit 2.2 Quiz
  • Unit 2.4 Quiz
  • Unit 2.6 Quiz
  • Unit 2.8 Quiz
  • Unit 2.9 Quiz

Videos
  • 3.1 VCG: Taste 
  • 3.2 VCG: Definitions 
  • 3.3 VCG: Examples 
  • 3.4 VCG: Limitations 
  • 3.5 VCG: Individual Rationality and Budget Balance in VCG 
  • 3.6 VCG: The Myerson-Satterthwaite Theorem
Practice Exercises
  • Problem Set 3
  • Unit 3.2 Quiz
  • Unit 3.3 Quiz
  • Unit 3.6 Quiz

Videos
  • 4.1 Auctions: Taste
  • 4.2 Auctions: Taxonomy
  • 4.3 Bidding in Second-Price Auctions
  • 4.4 Bidding in First-Price Auctions
  • 4.5 Revenue Equivalence 
  • 4.6 Optimal Auctions 
  • 4.7 More Advanced Auctions
Practice Exercises
  • Problem Set 4
  • Unit 4.2 Quiz
  • Unit 4.3 Quiz
  • Unit 4.4 Quiz
  • Unit 4.6 Quiz

Practice Exercise
  • FINAL EXAM

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