ECON 106D

Designed Markets

Economics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Discussion of markets and other institutions that were purposefully designed, mostly by economists. Choices designers face when designing such markets. Markets and their context and corresponding economic models. Topics include matching between medical residents and hospitals, matching between high school students and New York and Boston high schools, kidney transplants, course allocation in business schools, eBay auctions, and prediction markets. Examination of how to optimize one’s actions and outcomes in such markets.

P/NP or letter grading.

Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 11, 101. Enforced corequisite: course 106DL.

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ECON 106DL

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

ECON 106D

ECON 11Microeconomic Theory
- ECON 1Principles of Economics
- MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
  - MATH 1Precalculus
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

ECON 106D

ECON 106DLDesigned Markets Laboratory
- ECON 106DDesigned Marketsanother path to it

1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.