Tutorials
The twelve-week teaching schedule: what happens in each tutorial, what to prepare, and what leaves the room.
Where the theory from lecture gets tested against a specific case, a dataset, or another student trying to break your argument. Bring the week's reading; most weeks ask you to have already formed an opinion before you arrive.
Market Case Studies
Find the frictions in a market that isn't romance, before the course turns the same lens on one that is
Week 1 · 21 February 2028
Map Your Search Technology
Model a fictional persona's discovery channel as a cost function, not as a list of tips
Week 2 · 28 February 2028
Signal or Noise?
Sort a batch of fictional profile claims into cheap talk and costly signal, and defend the line
Week 3 · 6 March 2028
Lemon Lot
A market-for-lemons exercise — choose who to "buy" under deliberately incomplete information
Week 4 · 13 March 2028
Design a Screening Test
Groups design a screening mechanism that separates types by self-selection — and Assignment 1 is due
Week 5 · 20 March 2028
Secretary Problem Simulator
Play the optimal-stopping game against your own intuition, then check it against the 1/e rule
Week 6 · 27 March 2028
Opening Moves
Practice drills in the midterm's own format, the week the midterm is sat
Week 7 · 10 April 2028
Run Gale–Shapley by Hand
Execute the stable matching algorithm on a small preference table, from both sides
Week 8 · 17 April 2028
Negotiate the Bins
A structured Nash-bargaining role-play over a shared-resource dilemma
Week 9 · 24 April 2028
Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma Tournament
The classic in-class tournament — submit a strategy, play it against everyone else's, repeatedly
Week 10 · 1 May 2028
Redesign the Rulebook
Workshop time on Assignment 2 — checking a proposed rule for incentive compatibility before you submit it
Week 11 · 8 May 2028
Post-Mortem
A structured retrospective critiquing the market framework itself, ahead of the capstone
Week 12 · 15 May 2028