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Course Outlines

Spring 2026 - ECON 804 G100

Microeconomic Theory II (4)

Class Number: 1819

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Jan 5 – Apr 10, 2026: Tue, 2:30–5:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Prerequisites:

    ECON 803.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Covers: (i) non-cooperative game theory (including static games, sequential games, repeated games, and Bayesian games) and applications; (ii) contracts and information (including moral hazard and adverse selection) and related topics (such as auctions, mechanism design, and incomplete contracts).

COURSE DETAILS:

This course covers game theory and asymmetric information as in lemons and signaling, but also as in the principal-agent problem and mechanism design. The more precise outline is as follows:

 

Simultaneous Move Games; Extensive Form Games; Repeated Games

Adverse Selection---Lemons, Signaling

Principal-agent problem

Mechanism design---dominant strategy implementation, Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem, Bayesian implementation

Grading

NOTES:

There will be one mid-term examination, given in class on March 3, with a weight of 40%, and a final, date TBA, with a weight of 40%. There will be assignments in most weeks, with a total weight of 20%. These will be marked and taken up by the TA.

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

Mas-Colell, A., Whinston, M.D. and Green, J.R., Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN 978-019-507 3409


REQUIRED READING NOTES:

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Graduate Studies Notes:

Important dates and deadlines for graduate students are found here: http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/current/important_dates/guidelines.html. The deadline to drop a course with a 100% refund is the end of week 2. The deadline to drop with no notation on your transcript is the end of week 3.

Registrar Notes:

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