ECON 3366 Connecting Sellers and Buyers in Decentralized Markets: An Analysis of Labor, Transportation, and Sharing Platforms
This course studies markets where customers and sellers cannot instantaneously meet such as labor markets, taxi markets and shipping markets. The course will make extensive use of micro data from such markets in order to study them, as well as economic theory. We also examine what happens when platforms emerge to assist in the matching process, such as Uber/Lyft and Airbnb. The course will use a mixture of slides and a couple of case studies.
Course overview
- Department
- Economics
- School
- MCAS
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Offered
- Annually
Catalog details
Requirements fulfilled
Course evaluations
- Course rating
- 3.77 / 5 · Very Good
- Instructor rating
- 3.93 / 5 · Very Good
- Terms evaluated
- 3
| Term | Instructor | Course overall | Instructor overall | Well organized | Clear learning objectives | Intellectually challenging | Helpful assignments | Applicable beyond course | Attendance necessary | Weekly effort | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2026 | Theodore Papageorgiou | 3.8 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 1–3 hrs/week | 15 of 19 |
| Spring 2025 | Theodore Papageorgiou | 4.2 | 4.1 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 3.8 | 4–6 hrs/week | 34 of 41 |
| Fall 2023 | Theodore Papageorgiou | 3.6 | 3.8 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 4.1 | 3.3 | 4–6 hrs/week | 62 of 75 |