Wednesday, June 13, 2018

The incentive auction (for radio spectrum) in three videos

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These come from the Edelman competition: Video 1:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKWs5My86fw Video 2:  https://www...
Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Battle over college admission application platforms

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CollegeNET , a software vendor to colleges, is suing the  Common App ., and also providing software support for it's newer competitor, ...
Monday, June 11, 2018

The market for blood plasma: different tissues, same issues

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I'll be speaking at  The Plasma Protein Forum, June 12-13 in Washington D.C., on "REPUGNANT TRANSACTIONS AND FORBIDDEN MARKETS: D...
Sunday, June 10, 2018

Computing fairness

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One of the areas in which computer science and economics touch each other more than a bit is in understanding what constitutes a fair way o...
Saturday, June 9, 2018

Gaming the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

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One of the big lessons of market design is that participants have big strategy sets. Here's a new paper that explores some of what that...
Friday, June 8, 2018

Parag Pathak interview on designing theories for the real world

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Here's the introduction, click on the link to read more, or to hear the audio recording. Designing theories for the real world The A...
Thursday, June 7, 2018

Salaries of new lawyers at big law firms are on the move

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After a long period of stagnation, salaries of lawyers in associate positions at large law firms recently started to move, and are climbing...
Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Repugnant markets: listen to my Philosophy Talk chat with Ken Taylor and Debra Satz

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Below is a link to the audio recording of my Sunday radio chat on Philosophy Talk: Repugnant Markets: Should Everything Be For Sale? ...
Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Airbnb in Paris

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The FT has an informative story about Airbnb's large footprint in Paris , the nuanced effects this has on the city, and French attempts...
Monday, June 4, 2018

The job market(s) for professional psychologists: history and current issues

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Various parts of the psychology job market resolved problems of thickness, congestion and incentives by adopting centralized clearinghouses...
Sunday, June 3, 2018

Repugnant markets on the radio

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Repugnant Markets on the radio: I'll join Ken Taylor and Debra Satz on Philosophy Talk today, June 3 "We might ban b...
Saturday, June 2, 2018

The Economist on blood plasma

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The Economist comments on Canada's repugnance towards paying Canadians to donate blood plasma (when you can buy as much as you need fro...
Friday, June 1, 2018

Gratitude for an organ donation

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Only a curmudgeon (and I know some) would think of this as (illegal) donor compensation. Here's a story from the Greeley, Colorado Tr...
Thursday, May 31, 2018

Kidney exchange takes another step forward in Mexico: Pro-Renal

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My recent visit was to speak about kidney transplantation in Mexico, and to raise awareness of and support for the new kidney exchange n...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Martine Quinzii, RIP

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This sad news about Martine Quinzii comes from the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory. In Memoriam: Martine Quinzii &quo...