NBER Market Design conference at Stanford, June 8-9, 2014

Here's the program:

NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC. Market Design Working Group Meeting Susan Athey and Parag Pathak, Organizers June 8-9, 2014 Sheraton Palo Alto Sequoia/Oak Room 625 El Camino Real Palo Alto, CA PROGRAM Participant List Sunday, June 8: 8:30 am Continental Breakfast 9:00 am Haluk Ergin, Duke University Tayfun Sonmez, Boston College Utku Unver, Boston College Living-Donor Lobar Liver/Lung Exchange 9:45 am Yeon-Koo Che, Columbia University Jinwoo Kim, Seoul National University Fuhito Kojima, Stanford University Stable Matching in Large Economies 10:30 am Break 11:00 am Nicolas Lambert, Stanford University Michael Ostrovsky, Stanford University, Google, and NBER Mikhail Panov, Stanford University Strategic Trading in Informationally Complex Environments  11:45 am Nima Haghpanah, Northwestern University Jason Hartline, Northwestern University Reverse Mechanism Design 12:30 pm Lunch 2:00 pm Umut Dur, North Carolina State University Scott Duke Kominers, Harvard University Parag Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Tayfun Sonmez, Boston College The Demise of Walk Zones in Boston: Priorities vs. Precedence in School Choice 2:45 pm Nikhil Agarwal, Yale University and NBER Paulo Somaini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Identification and Estimation in Manipulable Assignment Mechanisms 3:30 pm Break 4:00 pm Paul Milgrom, Stanford University Ilya Segal, Stanford University Deferred-Acceptance Auctions and Radio Spectrum Reallocation  4:45 pm Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER Denis Nekipelov, University of Virginia Designing Large Advertising Markets When Agents Have Heterogeneous Objectives 5:30 pm Adjourn 7:00 pm Dinner at Il Fornaio 520 Cowper Street, Palo Alto Monday, June 9: 8:30 am Continental Breakfast 9:00 am Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER Chiara Farronato, Stanford University Jonathan Levin, Stanford University and NBER Neel Sundaresan, eBay Research Labs Sales Mechanisms in Online Markets: What Happened to Internet Auctions? 9:45 am Lawrence Ausubel, University of Maryland Oleg Baranov, University of Colorado Boulder Revealed Preference in Bidding: Empirical Evidence from Recent Spectrum Auctions 10:30 am Break 11:00 am Bradley Larsen, Stanford University and NBER The Efficiency of Dynamic, Post-Auction Bargaining: Evidence from Wholesale Used-Auto Auctions  11:45 am Eric Budish, University of Chicago Judd Kessler, University of Pennsylvania Changing the Course Allocation Mechanism at Wharton 12:30 pm Joint ACM EC and NBER Lunch 2:00 pm A Joint Session for EC, NBER and Decentralization on CS and Economics Organized by the Events Chairs:  Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER Moshe Babaioff, Microsoft Vincent Conitzer, Duke University David Easley, Cornell University Fuhito Kojima, Stanford University Scott Page, University of Michigan Parag Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Invited Speakers, Titles and Links to Abstracts: Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER The Economics of Crypto-Currencies  Joaquin Candela, Facebook Machine Learning and the Facebook Ads Auction Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University Computational Problems for Designed Social Systems Tim Roughgarden, Stanford University Approximately Optimal Mechanisms Motivation, Examples, and Lessons Learned 5:30 pm Adjourn The joint conference, with activities by EC and Decentralization, will continue from Tuesday to Thursday.  On Tuesday morning, EC will have a keynote talk by Matt Jackson, followed by a poster session and EC technical session.  Additional details on the EC Conference, including registration information are available at http://www.sigecom.org/ec14/index.html