Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Practical insights from market design, in Japan

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I was recently interviewed by Fuhito Kojima as part of a symposium conducted by the University of Tokyo Market Design Center on practical i...
Sunday, January 15, 2023

Predicting the future in Japan: Kojima, Narita, Saito and Uchida

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A new book in Japanese has appeared, whose translated title is " Future Prediction of Geniuses ." My attempt to post about it caus...
Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Managing inter-district school choice, by Yuchiro Kamada and Fuhito Kojima

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 Here's a paper that considers inter-district school choice, motivated by Tokyo day care centers.  I think  a similar problem arises in ...
Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Japanese court upholds ban on same sex marriage

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 The Japan Times has the story: In LGBTQ rights setback, Japan court says barring same-sex marriage not unconstitutional     June 20, 2022 &...
Saturday, October 16, 2021

Market design in Tokyo

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 Fuhito Kojima and Hiroaki Odahara report on some of the projects presently underway at the University of Tokyo Market Design Center (UTMD) ...
Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Fuhito Kojima and I will discuss improving social welfare with matching theory in a Nikkei Business webinar this evening

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Fuhito Kojima and I will participate in a Nikkei Business Zoom webinar on The Future of Management 2030 , in English and Japanese (I think t...
Friday, September 17, 2021

Lectures on equilibrium in markets for indivisible goods at U. Tokyo by Teytelboym, Baldwin and Jagadeesan, Sept 21-24

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  Towards a general theory of markets with indivisible goods : special lectures at The University of Tokyo Market Design Center (UTMD) Septe...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

Uterus transplants considered in Japan

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 Here's the story from the Asahi Shimbun, including some background. For the time being, only living-donor organs seem to be allowed und...
Sunday, March 21, 2021

Same sex marriage in Japan takes a step forward

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In The U.S., court decisions paved the way for same sex marriage.  Now there's a court decision in Japan. The NY Times has the story: La...
Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Regulating the timing of job search: evidence from the labor market for new college graduates, by Hiroko Okudaira

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  Regulating the timing of job search: evidence from the labor market for new college graduates Hiroko Okudaira , Doshisha University, Labou...
Monday, November 9, 2020

Assisted reproductive technology in Japan's national health insurance

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  The Financial Times has the story: Prime minister floats fertility treatment to boost Japan’s birth rate--Critics say making IVF cheaper w...
Sunday, November 8, 2020

Interviews with Fuhito Kojima, Bob Wilson, and Al Roth in the Japanese economic magazine Diamond Weekly

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  Here are three interviews conducted by the journalist Kohei Takeda for the Japanese economic magazine  DIAMOND WEEKLY, on their website DI...
Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Fuhito Kojima wins the 2021 Japanese Economic Association Nakahara Prize

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  Congratulations to Fuhito Kojima, who is the 2021 winner of the Nakahara Prize of the Japanese Economic Association , which is awarded eac...
Saturday, July 25, 2020

Speed dating, and matchmaking via Zoom, in Japan

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The Washington Post has the story: Lockdowns make the heart grow fonder in Japan as online matchmaking surges By Simon Denyer and Akiko ...
Friday, February 21, 2020

School choice, centralized and decentralized, in Japan, a century ago, by Tanaka, Narita and Moriguchi

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I heard Yusuke Narita present this remarkable paper comparing centralized and decentralized school matching at a recent seminar at Stanford...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

Sex related businesses in Japan

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Japan is complicated. Here's a story from the Guardian that seems not to involve prostitution, but is nevertheless sex related (and chi...
Friday, May 17, 2019

Repugnant phrasing

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Japan's labor and immigration policies have been more restrictive than welcoming to an immigrant/migrant labor force.  So one can imagi...
Thursday, December 14, 2017

Japan's health insurance will pay for overseas transplants

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In Japan, the national insurance will now pay for some transplants done overseas, when they cannot be done at home. The discussion reflects...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Organ donation and transplantation in Japan

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The Chicago Tribune has an article (reprinted/translated?) from Japan: Japan badly lags world in organ transplants Yukiko Takanashi and S...
Sunday, July 10, 2016

Market design and cultural context: from an interview in Japan

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When I was in Japan in April I spoke at Tokyo Institute of Technology. Here's a brief account that just appeared in English, highlighti...