MGT 431 – Information: Strategy and Economics
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Summary
This course serves as an introduction to the economics
of information and its strategic ramifications. The main objectives are:
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to use economic theory to understand strategic
interactions in the presence of uncertainty and estimate the value of
information;
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to analyze
competitive strategy in an information economy.
<Current Syllabus (Version: February 20,
2019)>
Contact Details
Operations, Economics and
Strategy (OES)
EPFL-CDM-ODY 3.01
Phone: +41 21 693 01 41
E-Mail: thomas.weber@epfl.ch
EPFL-CDM-ODY 4.16
Phone: +41 21 693 12 32
EPFL-CDM-ODY 3.16
E-Mail : ilona.ball@epfl.ch
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Current Problem Sets &
Solutions
· Problem Set 1
(Due: March 13) – Solutions
· Problem Set 2
(Due: April 10) – Solutions
· Problem Set 3
(Due: April 17) – Solutions
Exams & Solutions
·
Midterm Exam (2019)
– Solutions
·
Practice Midterm Exam (2018)
– Solutions
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Practice Midterm Exam (2017)
– Solutions
·
Practice Midterm Exam (2016)
– Solutions
Useful Links & Resources
A.
General Resources
· EPFL Library ×
information about the library and useful starting point to find electronic
resources available at EPFL
· Nebis Catalogue
× here you can check EPFL’s and other Swiss libraries’ holdings, and
order books to the circulation desk
· Inomics
× index of Economics conferences (quite comprehensive, but still
incomplete)
· JSTOR ×
download top journal papers in Business, Economics, Statistics; most recent
years not available
· Social Science Citation Index
× useful to forward-search references to key papers that you identify:
after searching the paper, go to its full record, click on the number next to
“Times Cited”, then on the following page click on “Total”; the citation index
sometimes also contains direct links to databases with pdf-copies of the papers
· Social Science Research Network ×
large repository of current working papers in the social sciences
B. Supply-Chain Management Resources
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intrade