ECON 106DDesigned Markets
Economics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
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.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 11, 101. Enforced corequisite: course 106DL.
BruinTree reads · Corequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ECON 106D
- ECON 11Microeconomic Theory
- ECON 101Microeconomic Theory
- ECON 106DLDesigned Markets Laboratory
3 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 12 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
ECON 106D
- ECON 106DLDesigned Markets Laboratory
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.