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Readership: Graduate students of economics, with some advanced undergraduate potential. A core text for courses on the economics of information; supplementary reading for general microeconomics and industrial organization courses.
Inés Macho-Stadler, Professor of Economics, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, and J. David Pérez-Castrillo, Associate Professor of Economics, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
"It is a timely contribution to the discipline of Economics as a whole and in particular to Information Economics." - Ian Jackson, Staffordshire University
1: Introduction 2: The Base Model 3: The Moral Hazard Problem 4: The Adverse Selection Problem 5: Signalling Mathematical Appendix Additional Exercises