Monday, February 9, 2015

Mike Rees and reverse transplant tourism in the Toledo Blade

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REVERSE-TRANSPLANT TOURISM: Kidney doctor pairs foreign, U.S. recipients UTMC surgeon says program will save money in long run Publis...
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An economist's perspective on transplantation--in Transplantation (the journal)

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I have a paper in the latest issue of the journal Transplantation, discussing some approaches to current challenges facing transplantation...
Sunday, February 8, 2015

Conference on Auctions, Market Mechanisms and Their Applications (AMMA 2015)

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Scott Kominers writes: "Lirong Xia and I are co-organizing a new iteration of the Conference on Auctions, Market Mechanisms and The...

Uber, surge pricing, and the Red Cross

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Uber, faced with criticism that it raised prices in Sydney during an emergency, but wanting to keep drivers incentivized to be available wh...
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Saturday, February 7, 2015

Differential Privacy: an appreciation of Cynthia Dwork

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On Thursday I heard Cynthia Dwork talk about differential privacy in San Diego, and here is an appreciation of her at the CS blog called Go...

Some history of kidney exchange

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Here's a retrospective paper on kidney exchange and how technology has changed to keep up with the changing environment, just out in In...
Friday, February 6, 2015

Large matching markets as limits

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One popular way to study large markets is to look at limits as market size goes to infinity. This is often the only tool we have to develop...
Thursday, February 5, 2015

Information theory and applications

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I'll be speaking today in San Diego at a conference on  Information theory and applications  Here's the program . I'll give...
Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Mike Rees launches "Reverse transplant tourism" at the Alliance for Paired Donation

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Philippine couple receives first operation in Reverse Transplant Tourism NBC videos:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1ZA3uQslFc  &qu...

Joel Klein and New York Schools, at the World Bank

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Joel Klein, the former Chancellor of the New York City School system, recently spoke at the World Bank about his new book " Lessons of...
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Organ donation in Turkey

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The religious debate about organ donation in Turkey may have reached a turning point. Here's a story from the Daily Sabah: Imams to l...
Monday, February 2, 2015

World Congress of the Econometric Society : 17th to 21st August 2015 in Montreal

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11th World Congress of the Econometric Society : 17th to 21st August 2015 Montréal, Canada There's lots of market design among the f...
Sunday, February 1, 2015

Penn State honors Bob Marshall

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Dr. Robert C. Marshall Named Distinguished Professor "Robert C. Marshall, Department of Economics recently was named Distingu...

Continued troubles in German organ donation and transplantation

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From Spiegel online:  Vor Organspende: Schwerer Fehler bei Hirntod-Diagnose   (Before Organ Donation: A fatal error occurred brain death di...
Saturday, January 31, 2015

Financial compensation for living kidney donation: survey at departments of motor vehicles

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Here's another contribution to the ongoing discussion... Am J Transplant.  2015 Jan;15(1):265-73. doi: 10.1111/ajt.13004. Epub 2014 ...