Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Thursday, July 4, 2024

YingHua He 何 英华 has died.

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  Yan Chen passes on the devastating news that  YingHua He 何 英华  passed away on Tuesday night, after struggling with kidney cancer. May his ...
Thursday, April 25, 2024

The Matching Society by Melchior Simioni and Philippe Steiner

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" If we put on the glasses of economic sociology, it appears ... that matching corresponds to a specific form of coordination close but...
Wednesday, March 6, 2024

France amends its constitution to protect access to abortion

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  The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v.Wade and end a constitutional right to abortion in the U.S. prompted France to am...
Thursday, August 3, 2023

Market design conferences: Marseille, 11 – 15 December, and Santiago 18-20 December, 2023

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  Here's the conference announcement from Marseille:  From matchings to markets. A tale of Mathematics, Economics and Computer Science. ...
Thursday, June 15, 2023

School choice and related matching algorithms in France, by Vincent Iehlé and Julien Jacqmin

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Here's a recent paper that looks at the assignment of students to some of France's Grandes Ecoles, and draws some conclusions about ...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Learning and competition in the lab, in France, and in India

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 Three NBER working papers this week particularly caught my eye: a lab experiment, a natural experiment, and a field experiment. The first i...
Saturday, July 9, 2022

Prospects for improving kidney exchange in France

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A recent article in  Néphrologie & Thérapeutique simulates h ow kidney exchange in France could possibly be made substantially more effe...
Thursday, August 26, 2021

The Limits of the Markets - Commodification of Nature and Body, reviewed in OEconomia

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 The journal OEconomia has a review of the book  Élodie Bertrand, Marie-Xavière Catto and Alicia-Dorothy Mornington (eds), Les limites du ma...
Monday, May 31, 2021

Covid vaccine congestion in France looks familiar

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France is some weeks behind the U.S. in delivering vaccines, but the script will look familiar to Americans. The  Financial Times has the st...
Monday, November 30, 2020

Philippe Steiner on matching and romance, and transplants

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  The French economic sociologist Philippe Steiner, who studies (among other things) how markets and gift giving can coexist, has a short p...
Saturday, May 16, 2020

Transplants dropped as Covid-19 rose, in France and the U.S.

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In France, even more than in the U.S., kidney transplants were considered elective surgery. In the Lancet: Organ procurement and transp...