Two Americans, Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley, have won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics. Their research on market design has found many practical applications. It's at the heart of the system used ...

“WHAT on earth is mechanism design?” was the typical reaction to this year's Nobel prize in economics, announced on October 15th. In this era of “Freakonomics”, in which everyone is ...

This course is not available as an outside option. This course delivers insights from cutting edge research in psychology and economics, and asks students to use these insights to design solutions to ...

The Data, Economics, and Design of Policy concentration helps you develop the competencies and theoretical knowledge needed to tackle some of the most pressing challenges facing developing countries ...

Today, mechanism design theory plays a central role in many areas of economics and parts of political science. Leonid Hurwicz is a US citizen. Born in 1917 in Moscow, Russia, he is now Regents ...

This course is not available as an outside option. This course delivers insights from cutting edge research in psychology and economics, and asks students to use these insights to design solutions to ...