NBER Market Design Working Group Meeting, tomorrow at Stanford

 Here's the program for the NBER Market Design Working Group Meeting, Fall 2026

I'll be discussing Moral Economics with Canice Prendergast. 

Friday, October 16

8:00 am Continental Breakfast

 

9:00 am Personalized Recommendations Without Inducing Congestion: Mitigating Disparities in the NYC High School Match

Erica Chiang, Cornell University

Nikhil Garg, Cornell University

Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University

Rebecca Lichtenstein, New York City Public Schools

Brielle McDaniel, New York City Public Schools

Kristen O’Neil, New York City Public Schools

Kenny Peng, Cornell University

Eva Tardos, Cornell University

Dejaunique Thomas, New York City Public Schools

Lianna Wright, New York City Public Schools

 

9:45 am Who Gets What in Education: Can School Matching Improve Student Achievement?

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Duke University and NBER

Parag A. Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Christopher R. Walters, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

 

10:30 am Break

11:00 am Searchable Menus

Piotr Dworczak, Northwestern University

Frank Yang, Stanford University

 

11:45 am Two-Sided Matching with Partial Participation

Avinatan Hassidim, Bar-Ilan University

Assaf Romm, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Ran Shorrer, The Pennsylvania State University

 

12:30 pm Lunch and Conversation with Al Roth about his latest book, "Moral Economics" with Canice Prendergast as Moderator

 

2:30 pm Clearing Multi-Unit Markets with Simple Pricing

Ali Makhdoumi, Duke University

Saša Pekeč, Duke University

Xinchang Wang, Duke University

 

3:15 pm Quota Marketplace: Dynamic Pricing for Efficient Allocation of ML Training Resources

Vasilis Gkatzelis, Drexel University

Renato Paes Leme, Google Research

Ian McFarlane, Google Research

Nehal Mehta, Google Research

Vahab Mirrokni, Google Research

Balasubramanian Sivan, Google Research

Mihai Tiuca, Google Research

Amin Vahdat, Google Research

Soheil Hassas Yeganeh, Google Research

 

4:00 pm Break

 

4:30 pm One-Shot Pricing for Hands-Off-the-Wheel Advertising Markets

Emerson Melo, Indiana University

Matthew Shum, California Institute of Technology

Rakesh Vohra, University of Pennsylvania

 

5:15 pm Paying for Information, Not for Clicks: A Block-Level Publisher Content Marketplace for AI Answers

Markus Mobius, Microsoft Research

Nicole Immorlica, Microsoft Research

Oliver Kiss, Spreadmonitor

Brendan Lucier, Microsoft Research

Ishan Mahajan, Microsoft Research

Jingyi Qiu, University of Michigan School of Information

Tanya Rosenblat, University of Michigan

David M. Rothschild, Microsoft Research

Andras Sari, Central European University

Colin Watson, Microsoft Research

6:30 pm Group Dinner 

 

Saturday, October 17

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

Screening for Usage

Justin Hadad, Stanford University

Kyle Woodward, Assign Group

 

9:45 am

Pricing the Right to Renege in Search Markets: Evidence from Trucking

Richard Faltings, University of California, San Diego

 

10:30 am

Break

 

11:00 am

Competition and Welfare in Airport Slot Allocation

Sebastian D. Bauer, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

11:45 am

Road Pricing under Heterogeneity

Itai Ater, Tel Aviv University

Brad Ross, University of Pennsylvania

Adi Shany, Tel Aviv University

Shoshana Vasserman, Stanford University and NBER

 

12:30 pm

Boxed Lunch and Adjourn