Five Beautiful Results in
Micro Theory, With Proofs
Dan
Quint, Spring 2014
Syllabus
Lecture 1 - the first welfare theorem
Lecture 2 - Arrow's impossibility theorem
Lecture 3 - common knowledge and agreeing to disagree
Lecture 4 - Bayesian Nash equilibrium and no-trade
Lecture 5 - preliminaries for optimal auctions - envelopes, mechanisms, and revelations
Lecture 6 - optimal auctions solved (and why finding another bidder is better anyway)
Lecture 7 - impossibility of efficiency trade with bilateral private information
All lectures as one file