Showing posts with label algorithms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label algorithms. Show all posts
Sunday, October 13, 2024

Stable matching in Scientific American

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  Here's a short article in Scientific American, describing the deferred acceptance algorithm and mentioning some uses for stable matchi...
Sunday, September 29, 2024

Gaming a bike sharing algorithm

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 Jacob Leshno points out this NYT story. He writes "The gist of it is that Citi bike pays to deliver bikes to stations with shortages,...
Friday, August 30, 2024

Automated bidding in auctions

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 Part of the future of market design (as artificial intelligence evolves from large language models to something more like general AI) will ...
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...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

Top Trading Cycles (TTC) and the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Mathematical Economics

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  This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Mathematical Economics, and also of the Top Trading Cycles (TTC) algorithm that was...
Monday, December 18, 2023

Algorithmic Mechanism Design With Investment, by Akbarpour, Kominers, Li, Li, and Milgrom,

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 Mechanisms that are computationally complex may require approximation in implementation, which can change the incentive properties of the e...
Friday, December 1, 2023

Fairness in algorithms: Hans Sigrist Prize to Aaron Roth

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  The University of Bern's Hans Sigrist Prize has been awarded to Penn computer scientist Aaron Roth , and will be celebrated today. He...
Monday, October 16, 2023

Refugee resettlement and the top trading cycles algorithm, by Farajzadeh, Killea, Teytelboym, and Trapp

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  Here's a recent paper that (among other things) considers using the top trading cycles algorithm for matching refugees to sponsors (un...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Minimal envy mechanisms, by Julien Combe

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 Here's an article I missed when it came out online: Reallocation with priorities and minimal envy mechanisms , by Julien Combe, Economi...
Thursday, July 27, 2023

Kidney brouhaha in Israel: is a good deed still good when performed by a shmuck?

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 Recently a three way kidney exchange was performed in Israel. This would have been unremarkable under most circumstances: Israel has an act...
Monday, May 29, 2023

Further progress on course allocation, by Budish, Gao, Othman, Rubinstein and Zhang

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  Here are some new developments in the course allocation mechanism used initially in Wharton and now elsewhere.  It turns out that strategy...
Thursday, December 8, 2022

Three way liver exchange in Pakistan, reported in JAMA Surgery by Salman, Arsalan, and Dar, in collaboration with economist Alex Chan

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  Here's an exciting account, just published in JAMA Surgery, of a three way liver exchange in Pakistan, achieved in part by collaborati...