Monday, November 15, 2010

Matching in practice: conference today in Berlin

Here's the preliminary program:

Preliminary Program of the 1st Workshop on “Matching in Practice”
November 15, 2010
Location: Social Science Research Center (WZB)

Organizers:
Estelle Cantillon
ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Dorothea Kübler
Social Science Research Center (WZB)

Friday, November 15, 2010

10.00 – 10.55 Peter Biró (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
“The Hungarian Higher Education Matching Scheme”

10.55 – 11.50 Alex Westkamp (University of Bonn)
“An Analysis of the German University Admissions System”

12.05 – 13.00 Patrick Legros (ECARES Brussels)
“Rock and Roll Bands: (In)complete Contracts and Creativity”

13.45 – 14.30 Informal discussion about how the network could be useful

14.45 – 15.40 Estelle Cantillon (ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles)
“The Multi-unit Assignment Problem: Theory and Evidence from
Course Allocation at Harvard”

15.40 – 16.35 Antonio Nicolò (University of Padova)
“Pairwise Kidney Exchange: Age-Based Preferences”

16.35 – 17.30 Alexey Kushnir (University of Zurich)
“Preference Signaling in Matching Markets”

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