Undergraduate Level Information Economics
Department of Applied Economics, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University

2009 Class Resource Site

Instructor: Benjamin Chiao
TA: SHI Guang
Course Syllabus: [Download PDF]

This course covers the economics of information systems, laws and policies.  Topics include (but not limited to): the architecture of the Internet and networks, the pricing and policies of information goods, intellectual property, open contents (such as Wikipedia and open source software), censorship, information search and retrieval.


   
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Lecture 13: Final Exam

 

Lecture 12: Group Project Presentations

 

Lecture 11: Overloading Information: Some Economics of Spam

 

Lecture 10: Censoring Information: Some Law and Economics of Censorship in China

Lecture Slides (abridged)

Lecture 9: Licensing Information: The Economics of Open Contents

Lecture Slides

Lecture 8: Searching Information: The Economics of Search Engines

Lecture Slides (afterclass)

Lectures Slides (inclass)

Lecture 7: Markets for Information: The Economics of Libraries

Lecture Slides -- Theory

Lecture Slides -- GoogleBookSearch

Guest Lecture by SHEN Liang, CEO of Basemind

Lecture 6:Protecting Information: Intellectual Property Laws

Slides

Lecture 5: Games of Information 2: The Economics of Asymmetric Information (Adverse Selection, Signaling, and Screening)

Slides with Notes

 

Lecture 4: Measuring Information: Information Theory

Slides

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Lecture 3: Transmitting Information: Architecture and History of the Internet

Slides

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Lecture 2: Games of Information 1: Game Theory Basics

1. Slides(first half) 2. Slides (first half) with notes

3. Slides (second half, game_theory_basics)_afterclass version

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Lecture 1: Overview of Information Economics

1. Slides 2. Slides with Notes

December 28, 2009 12:20 PM