For everyone’s benefit, we will try to post all class notes here. These notes are NOT official, and they may very well have errors. Use with care, and if you see something that doesn’t fit – please let us know so we can fix it.

  1. Lecture 1 : Introduction, Second-price auctions, Voting systems
  2. Lecture 2: Arrow Theorem, Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem
  3. Lecture 3: The Constructive Manipulation Problem
  4. Lecture 4: Housing Assignment Problem, TTCA, Stable Matching
  5. Lecture 5: Proof of Stable Matching, VCG
  6. Lecture 6: More of VCG – examples
  7. Lecture 7: VCG in Networks, Cost Sharing, Group Strategy Proof Mechanisms
  8. Lecture 8: Digital Goods
  9. Lecture 9: Combinatorial Auctions
  10. Lecture 10: Combinatorial Auctions Continued
  11. Lecture 11: Combinatorial Auctions, Iterative Auctions, Gross Substitutes
  12. Lecture 12: Analysis of First Price Auctions

4 Responses to “Class Notes”


  1. 1 sefoluxb February 27, 2010 at 9:38 pm

    Hi.
    The link to lecture 1 doesn’t work. It asks for a usename an pass, and then says something like “you are not authorized to edit “

  2. 3 Assaf February 28, 2010 at 8:53 am

    Yep. Thanks la.

  3. 4 manu December 22, 2011 at 6:20 am

    This is seriously cool. can you conduct online classes, so that students across the globe can benefit. I cant actually tell you the incentives, but sir you being a game theorist should figure them out.


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