Monday, December 31, 2012

Repugnant transactions at year's end...

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Each of the stories below is about a transaction still regarded as repugnant in England, Israel, and Australia, respectively, but for which ...
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Sunday, December 30, 2012

Celsius' temperature scale (and other delights at Uppsala University)

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While in Sweden I had a delightful visit to Uppsala University . It was there, in the 1700's (as the University was  already nearing ...
Saturday, December 29, 2012

More photography business in Stockholm

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My recent trip to Sweden made me of interest to a variety of professional photographers, and in turn gave me a glimpse into the ways they ea...
Friday, December 28, 2012

Towards decriminalizing drugs?

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The Economist reports on remarks by the outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderón: "Impossible" to end drug trade, says Calderón...
Thursday, December 27, 2012

Returning items at stores in the US and Europe: two different equilibria?

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A recent article about the policies adopted by American stores regarding returns, particularly of gifts, has gotten me thinking about the di...
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Kidney exchange in Canada

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Moving to chains in Canada too... Heartbeat: A chain of faith, a gift of life: Revolutionary organ exchange program can involve a domino ...
Tuesday, December 25, 2012

The global strategic maple syrup reserve

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The global strategic maple syrup reserve has been breached, here's the NY Times story: I n $18 Million Theft, Victim Was a Canadian Mapl...
Monday, December 24, 2012

Neil Dorosin on school choice

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Neil Dorosin: The Elephant in the Classroom – School Choice Exists. We Just Manage it Poorly .
Sunday, December 23, 2012

Same sex marriage in France: protest and counterprotest

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Protests erupt in France over same-sex marriage " More than 100,000 protesters organized by Catholic groups staged separate demonstra...
Saturday, December 22, 2012

Market designers at Yahoo!, Google, eBay and Microsoft

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The Economist recently celebrated the contributions of Preston McAfee, Hal Varian, Steve Tadelis and Susan Athey:  Micro stars, macro effect...
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Friday, December 21, 2012

Video of Nobel prize awards ceremony

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I'm almost recovered from my trip to Stockholm:) Here is the video of the Nobel presentation ceremonies. Economics starts around 1:12. w...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

Martin Shubik

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The celebration of Lloyd Shapley at the recent Nobel week naturally makes people think of his long term collaborator Martin Shubik. There...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Market design is a team sport

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Muriel Niederle has been posting some pictures from Stockholm , and here are some of mine... First, the final slide from my Nobel lecture:...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

David Warsh on Lloyd Shapley and his colleagues

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After a head feint towards another topic, David Warsh writes about Lloyd Shapley and his colleagues David Gale, Herb Scarf, and Martin Shub...
Monday, December 17, 2012

Allocating top level domain names

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While I was away, Peter Cramton has been busy with an interesting allocation problem: Update on Applicant Auction Conference . He also inc...
Sunday, December 16, 2012

Gangnam Stanford Style

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Saturday, December 15, 2012

After dinner speech

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After the Nobel banquet, a two minute speech . Update: here it is on a local file...
Friday, December 14, 2012

Muriel Niederle is blogging about experimental and behavioral economics

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Here's her first post, posted from Stockholm: Experimental Economics Coming of Age

Interview by the Nobel foundation

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Here's a 25 minute interview, which starts a bit slowly, but in which I get to talk about matching:  Video interview with Alvin E. Roth ...
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Thursday, December 13, 2012

Nobel lectures in Uppsala

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Nobel lectures in Uppsala : many of the science lectures are heard again at Uppsala University on Dec 13.