Market Design

I'll post market design related news and items about repugnant markets. See also my Stanford profile. I have a general-interest book on market design: Who Gets What--and Why The subtitle is "The new economics of matchmaking and market design."

Showing posts with label shipping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shipping. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Matching shipping containers to shippers

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A matching problem that John Vande Vate is thinking about has to do with the large number of shipping containers that travel empty to thei...
Monday, August 15, 2016

There is a port in Oakland

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In Pittsburgh it was sometimes said that Gertrude Stein's famous line about Oakland: "there's no there there," is about t...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Ship insurance, ship ownership, and arms embargoes

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The breakout of cold war politics regarding the emerging civil war in Syria casts some light on the insurance markets for ships. Briefly, th...
Saturday, August 22, 2009

The market for bulk commodity shipments

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The transport of bulk commodities by sea is a business that depends on matching loads to ships. When times are good, ships may be fully book...
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