PhD level
Advanced Game Theory (Topic: Mechanism Design and Auction Theory)
Topics covered:
Mechanism design: social welfare functions, Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, revelation principle, Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem
Auction theory: Revenue Equivalence Theorem, interdependent values and the Winner's Curse, multi-object auctions
Master's level
Behavioral Economics
Topics covered:
Risk preferences: prospect theory, reference-dependent utilities, mental accounting, measurement techniques
Time preferences: quasi-hyperbolic discounting, non-stationary and non-constant discounting
Other-regarding preferences: behavioral game theory, learning, altruism, social preferences, social identity, social norms
Biological factors: neuroeconomics, gender
Undergraduate level
Quantitative Methods for Economic Analysis
Textbooks: Essential Mathematics for Economics Analysis by Sydsaeter and Hammond, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics by Chiang and Wainwright
Topics covered:
Single variable: differential and integral calculus, optimization
Multi-variable: differential calculus, constrained optimization
Linear algebra: matrix algebra