1 Preliminaries: Auctions
This handout is intended to give you a map to what will be covered in the 3 hrs or so I will be talking about modern structural auction empirics. Basically, what I want to do is to give you an introduction to the core technical tricks currently used to analyze auctions and (perhaps more importantly) give you the tools to access current research in the area.
Likely, there is more material here than we will be able to go through so I might be selective. Here are some useful sources/core things to be familiar with: