The Economist as Engineer at Exeter, July 14 and 15

Tomorrow is the conference for which I traveled to England, here's the announcement:

Economic Design: The Economist as an Engineer 14-15 July 2015

Al Roth, winner of the Nobel Prize 2012 in Economics, will receive an honourable doctorate from the University of Exeter. The Department of Economics with funding from the South West Doctoral Training Centre (SWDTC) and the University of Exeter Business School is proud to host a workshop in honour of Al Roth and his contribution to market design.

How to bring different parties together in the best possible way is a key economic problem. Examples of situations where this problem arises include matching children with different schools, interns with internships, and kidneys or other organs with patients who require transplants. The two-day workshop will focus on applying economic theory to solutions for "real-world" problems.

Speakers

Name	Institution	Paper
Alvin Roth	Stanford University	"Who Gets What and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design" and "Kidney exchange"
Vincent Crawford	University of Oxford	Efficient Mechanisms for Level-k Bilateral Trading
Bradley Ruffle	Wilfrid Laurier University	Waiting to Cooperate? Cooperation in one-stage and two-stage games
Joana Pais	University of Lisbon	Affirmative action through minority reserves: An experimental study
Surajeet Chakravarty	University of Exeter	Communicating with an ignorant agent
Burak Can	Maastricht University	Comparing Orders, Rankings, Queues, Tournaments and Lists
Dorothea Kuebler	WZB Berlin	College Admissions with Entrance Exams: Centralized versus Decentralized
Luke Lindsay	University of Exeter	How to organise a conference: A market design approach
Dirk Engelmann	Humboldt University	Does a Buyer Benefit from Bad Reputation? Theory and Experiments on Auctions with Default
Elizabeth Baldwin	LSE	Understanding Preferences: "Demand Types", and the Existence of Equilibrium with Indivisibilities

As part of the workshop Al Roth will present a public talk, details below: 

Who Gets What and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market DesignTuesday 14^th July at 2pm – 3.30pm
Streatham Court A

Please register your attendance online – REGISTER HERE

Workshop programme

Download the programme here: Economic Design: The Economist as an Engineer - Workshop Programme