ECON 211AContract Theory
Economics · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Study of trading relationships between small number of agents. Coverage of many tools and techniques used in models of moral hazard, adverse selection, and incomplete contracting, starting with static models of moral hazard and mechanism design and development of their dynamic counterparts. Consideration of environments where agents cannot use formal contracts, studying relational contracts and trading relationships with no contracts, Analysis of wide variety of applications from industrial organization, corporate finance, personnel economics, and public economics.
S/U 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
Preparation: introductory probability. Enforced requisite: course 201C.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ECON 211A
- ECON 201CMicroeconomics: Game Theory with Asymmetric Information and Applications
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.