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From foundational undergraduate courses to cutting-edge PhD seminars, our members offer comprehensive education in market design at every academic level. Our curriculum combines rigorous theory with real-world applications, preparing students to tackle complex economic challenges.
Explore the diverse courses our members regularly teach. Each course is designed to build both theoretical understanding and practical skills in market design.
Audience: Bachelor students (typically 3rd year)
Focus: Fundamentals of matching markets, resource allocation without monetary transfers, and auction theory through models and real-world case studies.
Explore course detailsAudience: PhD students (open to qualified Master students)
Focus: Advanced topics in matching theory, auction design, and boundedly rational mechanism design with current research perspectives.
Explore course detailsAudience: PhD students (open to qualified Master students)
Focus: Interactive seminar featuring participant research presentations and analysis of cutting-edge papers in microeconomics and market design.
Explore course detailsAudience: Bachelor students in Economics
Focus: Cognitive biases, reference-dependent preferences, present bias, social preferences, and their implications for policy and business strategy.
Explore course detailsAudience: Master students in Economics and Informatics
Focus: Blockchain fundamentals combined with hands-on lab projects, featuring collaborative design challenges and industry feedback sessions.
Explore course detailsAudience: Bachelor students in Economics
Focus: Market imperfections and strategic behavior with practical applications to competition policy and regulatory frameworks.
Explore course detailsAudience: Master students
Focus: How trading mechanisms influence market liquidity and price formation, with emphasis on market design and regulatory implications.
Explore course detailsAudience: Bachelor and Master students
Focus: Interdisciplinary exploration of market behavior and social norms, bridging economic theory with sociological insights.
Explore course detailsAudience: Bachelor and Master students
Focus: Preference aggregation and voting systems, covering classic results, impossibility theorems, strategic manipulation, and potential solutions.
Explore course detailsAudience: Second-year PhD students
Focus: Intensive analysis of recent theoretical developments, student research presentations, and guidance in developing original research papers.
Explore course detailsGuided research at every level
Ready to dive into market design research? Browse our faculty profiles to find researchers whose work matches your interests. Many of our faculty supervise Bachelor's and Master's theses, and we also welcome students interested in research assistant opportunities.
Connect, collaborate, contribute
Join us at our next events and workshops, where you'll meet fellow students, faculty, and visiting researchers in a relaxed setting. Whether you're just curious about market design or deep into your own research, we'd love to have you our community.
Ready to start your market design journey?
We're here to answer your questions about our courses, discuss thesis opportunities, or help you find the perfect way to get involved in market design research. Whether you're interested in course enrollment, research assistant positions, or exploring potential thesis topics, we'd love to hear from you.
Academic inquiries: Prof. Dr. Marek Pycia — marek.pycia@econ.uzh.ch
