Market design workshop at Iowa State University

 I'll give a public talk this evening to open a market design workshop tomorrow and Saturday:

Two-day Workshop: September 23-24, 2022, Heady Hall 360A, Iowa State University

Organizers: Ran Shorrer, Bumin Yenmez, Bertan Turhan  

Program: MARKET DESIGN WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Day 1: Friday, September 23, 2022 (Heady Hall 368A)

SESSION 1

8:00-8:40 Rakesh Vohra (w/ Thanh Nguyen)

“(Near) Substitute Preferences and Equilibria with Indivisibilities”

8:40-9:20 Federico Echenique (w/ Sumit Goel and SangMok Lee)

“Stable Allocations in Discrete Economies”

9:20-10:00 Marzena Rostek

“Decentralized-Market Design”

Chair: Tarun Sabarwal

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BREAK: 10:00-10:30

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SESSION 2

10:30-11:10 Karam Kang (w/ Giulia Brancaccio)

“Search Frictions and Product Design in the Municipal Bond Market”

11:10-11:50 Mariana Lavarde

“Distance to Schools and Equal Access in School Choice Systems”

11:50-12:30 Atila Abdulkadiroğlu (w/ Aram Grigoryan)

“Priority-based Assignment with Reserves and Quotas”

Chair: David Cooper

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LUNCH: 12:30-1:40 (Heady 360)

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SESSION 3

1:40-2:20 Bumin Yenmez (w/ Isa Hafalir and Fuhito Kojima)

“Design on Matroids: Diversity vs Meritocracy”

2:20-3:00 Orhan Aygün (w/ Bertan Turhan)

“Affirmative Action in India: Restricted Strategy Space, Complex Constraints, and

Direct Mechanism Design”

3:00-3:40 Nick Arnosti

“Explainable Affirmative Action”

Chair: Atila Abdulkadiroğlu

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BREAK: 3:40-4:10

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SESSION 4

4:10-4:50 Eric Budish

“The Economic Limits of Bitcoin and Anonymous, Decentralized Trust on the Blockchain”

4:50-5:30 Eduardo Azevedo (w/ David Mao, Jose Montiel Olea, and Amilcar Velez)

“A/B Testing with Gaussian Priors”

5:30-6:10 Ran Shorrer (w/ Yannai Gonczarowski and Scott Kominers)

“To Infinity and Beyond: Scaling Economic Theories via Logical Compactness”

Chair: Al Roth

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Day 2: Saturday, September 24, 2022

SESSION 5

8:00-8:40 Thayer Morrill (w/ Peter Troyan)

“Desirable Rankings: A New Method for Ranking Outcomes of a Competitive Process”

8:40-9:20 Lars Ehlers (w/ Christian Basteck)

“Strategy Proof and Envy-Free Random Assignment”

9:20-10:00 Itai Ashlagi (w/ Jacob Leshno, Pengyu Qian, and Amin Saberi)

“Price Discovery in Waiting Lists: A Connection to Stochastic Gradient Descent”

Chair: Rakesh Vohra

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BREAK: 10:00-10:30

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SESSION 6

10:30-11:10 Josue Ortega (w/ Thilo Klein)

“Improving Efficiency and Equality in School Choice”

11:10-11:50 Aram Grigoryan

“Transparency in Allocation Problems”

11:50-12:30 Inácio Bó (w/ Rustam Hakimov)

“Pick-an-Object Mechanisms”

Chair: Federico Echenique