INFO 6230

Games, Economic Behavior, and the Internet

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

There are many settings on the Internet where agents make decisions that involve responding to incentives, trading off costs and benefits, or strategizing about the behavior of other agents. Examples include online auctions (on Ebay, or advertising auctions); voting--- either explicitly, such as ratings on Digg or implicitly, as in search engine rankings; crowdsourcing contests as in TopCoder or Innocentive; labor markets as in Mechanical Turk or ODesk; peer-to-peer file sharing; social lending platforms, and a vast range of social computing systems.

When Offered Fall.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: graduate standing or permission of instructor.

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