Ben Sprung-Keyser

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• BEPP6110 – Microeconomics for Managers

  This course covers the economic foundations of business strategy and decision-making in market environments with other strategic actors and less than full information, as well as advanced pricing strategies. Topics include oligopoly models of market competition, creation, and protection, sophisticated pricing strategies for consumers with different valuations or consumers who buy multiple units (e.g. price discrimination, bundling, two-part tariffs), strategies for managing risk and making decisions under uncertainty, asymmetric information and its consequences for markets, and finally moral hazard and principle-agent theory with application to incentive contacts.

• I.R.S. Audits Are at a Record Low. Trump’s Cuts Could Make Them Even Rarer, New York Times - 04/08/2025
• How much did Congress lose by defunding the IRS? Way more than we thought., Washington Post - 06/14/2023
• The Great Millennial Migration That Wasn’t, Vox - 07/22/2022
• Social Programs Can Sometimes Turn a Profit for Taxpayers, New York Times - 07/10/2020
• When the Safety Net Pays for Itself, Wall Street Journal - 07/22/2019

Knowledge at Wharton

• How Audit Rates and Policy Shifts Impact IRS Effectiveness, Knowledge at Wharton - 5/28/2025