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PHDBA 279B - Incentives and Organizations in Markets is a class offered to doctoral students at UC Berkeley, and is a field requirement for PhDs in BPP at the Haas School of Business. This page details the course as it was taught by John Morgan and Steve Tadelis in the Spring of 2010. The [http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/rjmorgan/phdba279b/ course webpage] provides the official requirements. The evaluation of the course is based on class participation and the presentation of two papers (50%) and one course paper (50%). The course paper must "use theory in a significant way", and should be of a quality such that with additional work and polishing it could be publishable. Specifically, students are expected to write down a model and work out at least one interesting result. Either numerical examples or special cases that could be generalized are acceptable.

The second half was taught by Steve Tadelis ([mailto:stadelis@haas.berkeley.edu email] and [http://www2.haas.berkeley.edu/Faculty/tadelis_steven.aspx website]).The following lecture notes may be of use:*Tadelis, Steve (2007), "Topics in Contracts and Organizations: Lecture Notes", UC Berkeley, September [http://www.edegan.com/repository/Tadelis%20(2007)%20-%20Topics%20in%20Contracts%20and%20Organizations%20Lecture%20Notes.pdf pdf] [http://www.edegan.com/repository/Tadelis%20(2007)%20-%20Topics%20in%20Contracts%20and%20Organizations%20Lecture%20Notes.tex tex]*Tadelis, Steve and Ilya Segal (2005), "Lectures in Contract Theory", UC Berkeley and Stanford University, December [http://www.edegan.com/repository/Tadelis%20Segal%20(2005)%20-%20Lectures%20in%20Contract%20Theory.pdf pdf]