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:
·
to use
economic theory to understand strategic interactions in the presence of
uncertainty and estimate the value of information;
·
to analyze competitive strategy in an information
economy.
<Current
Syllabus
(Version:
October 14, 2025)>
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 72 55
EPFL-CDM-ODY
3.16
E-Mail :
ilona.ball@epfl.ch
Course Materials
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Current Problem Sets & Solutions
· See Moodle.
Exams & Solutions
·
See Moodle.
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
· intrade