# Site

## Pages

- [Page not found](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/404/): That page doesn't exist, or it has moved since you last looked
- [Assessment](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/assessments/): Every piece of graded work in the course, what it is worth, and when it is due.
- [Assignment 1: Design a Signal](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/assessments/assignment-1/): Build a fictional dating persona and defend which of its claims are costly signals versus cheap talk
- [Assignment 2: Redesign the Rulebook](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/assessments/assignment-2/): Propose an incentive-compatible redesign of a matching or bargaining mechanism, and show it survives being gamed
- [Capstone: The Market Audit](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/assessments/final-project/): A market audit and redesign proposal for a case of your own choosing — and the semester's required act of doubting its own model
- [Midterm Prep Set](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/assessments/midterm-prep/): Six mock midterm items, one per week 2–7 concept, each with a model response and the concept it's naming
- [Midterm: Opening Moves](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/assessments/midterm/): A twenty-item quiz on what you'd actually say, sat in tutorial the week initiation theory is covered
- [Lectures](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/lectures/): What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.
- [Love as a Market](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/lectures/week-01/): Orientation — why this course treats romance as a market, what that buys you, and what it costs
- [Discovery & Search Costs](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/lectures/week-02/): Why looking for a partner is a search problem, and why every search technology changes the answer
- [Cheap Talk vs. Costly Signals](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/lectures/week-03/): What separates a claim anyone could make from one that actually reveals something
- [Red Flags & Adverse Selection](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/lectures/week-04/): Akerlof's market for lemons, and why the worst-behaved participants are often the easiest to find
- [Screening Games](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/lectures/week-05/): How the uninformed side of a market can force information out of the informed side
- [The Secretary Problem](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/lectures/week-06/): Optimal stopping, the 1/e rule, and why "you'll know when you know" is a bad strategy
- [The Cost of Asking](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/lectures/week-07/): Why someone has to move first, what it costs them, and what game theory says about waiting the other person out
- [Stable Matching](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/lectures/week-08/): Gale–Shapley, and why an algorithm that guarantees stability doesn't guarantee anything else
- [Household Bargaining](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/lectures/week-09/): Nash bargaining, surplus, and what actually gets negotiated once the matching is done
- [Repeated Games & Trust](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/lectures/week-10/): Why the same one-shot game plays out completely differently once you expect to play it again tomorrow
- [Mechanism Design for Two](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/lectures/week-11/): Working backwards from the outcome you want to the rules that would produce it
- [Exit Markets & the Redesign](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/lectures/week-12/): Divorce as an exit market, and the semester's one required act of self-doubt about its own framework
- [People](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/people/): Who teaches the course, and how to reach them.
- [Professor Barry Gaining](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/people/barry-gaining/): A tutor working across the course's second half, from the first ask through to the capstone redesign.
- [Professor Sunk Costa](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/people/sunk-costa/): The founding convenor, responsible for the course's shape and its first six weeks of teaching.
- [Policies and support](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/policies/): The course-wide rules for late work, extensions, academic integrity and getting help.
- [Market Case Studies](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/sessions/01-market-case-studies/): Find the frictions in a market that isn't romance, before the course turns the same lens on one that is
- [Map Your Search Technology](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/sessions/02-search-technology/): Model a fictional persona's discovery channel as a cost function, not as a list of tips
- [Signal or Noise?](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/sessions/03-signal-or-noise/): Sort a batch of fictional profile claims into cheap talk and costly signal, and defend the line
- [Lemon Lot](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/sessions/04-lemon-lot/): A market-for-lemons exercise — choose who to "buy" under deliberately incomplete information
- [Design a Screening Test](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/sessions/05-design-a-screening-test/): Groups design a screening mechanism that separates types by self-selection — and Assignment 1 is due
- [Secretary Problem Simulator](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/sessions/06-secretary-simulator/): Play the optimal-stopping game against your own intuition, then check it against the 1/e rule
- [Opening Moves](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/sessions/07-opening-moves/): Practice drills in the midterm's own format, the week the midterm is sat
- [Run Gale–Shapley by Hand](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/sessions/08-run-gale-shapley/): Execute the stable matching algorithm on a small preference table, from both sides
- [Negotiate the Bins](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/sessions/09-negotiate-the-bins/): A structured Nash-bargaining role-play over a shared-resource dilemma
- [Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma Tournament](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/sessions/10-prisoners-dilemma-tournament/): The classic in-class tournament — submit a strategy, play it against everyone else's, repeatedly
- [Redesign the Rulebook](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/sessions/11-redesign-the-rulebook/): Workshop time on Assignment 2 — checking a proposed rule for incentive compatibility before you submit it
- [Post-Mortem](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-wally0225/sessions/12-post-mortem/): A structured retrospective critiquing the market framework itself, ahead of the capstone