Monday, July 22, 2019

Kidney exchange needs to be conducted at scale, in the AER by Agarwal, Ashlagi, Azevedo, Featherstone and Karaduman

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Market Failure in Kidney Exchange Nikhil Agarwal Itai Ashlagi Eduardo Azevedo Clayton R. Featherstone Ömer Karaduman AMERICAN EC...
Sunday, July 21, 2019

Celebrating Christos Papadimitriou at 70 at Columbia: September 6-8, 2019.

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Christos Papadimitriou, the computer scientist who intersects with market design trhough his big contributions to algorithmic game theory, ...
Saturday, July 20, 2019

Whiskey production is a warehouse business

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When we think of whiskey we think of distillers. But aging requires barrels, and barrels take up space for a long time.  A recent fire brin...
Friday, July 19, 2019

Privacy and dating apps

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As internet and app-driven dating becomes increasingly common, so has the tension between dating and privacy, i.e. between indicating to po...
Thursday, July 18, 2019

Laws about gay sex in Africa

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While many countries have legalized same sex marriages, including South Africa, in the rest of Africa the question is whether engaging in s...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Transplantation in China: update

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I returned Sunday from a busy and potentially productive trip to China. Since 2015 it has been illegal in China to use organs from execu...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

President Trump's Executive Order on kidney care

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On July 10, while I was in China, President Trump issued an executive order touching on all aspects of care for kidney patients, including ...
Monday, July 15, 2019

THE 30TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GAME THEORY at Stony Brook

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This long-running game theory conference is now in its 30th year--and some of the old veterans have passed on, but there are lots of young ...
Sunday, July 14, 2019

“If we can make the meat without the animal, why wouldn’t we do that?” A future for lab-grown meat

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The New Republic looks towards a cruelty free (and maybe animal free) food supply of meat (from an interview with Tyson Foods’ Tom Hayes, w...
Saturday, July 13, 2019

Litigation financing is no longer so repugnant

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Litigation financing has a long history, during much of which it was regarded as repugnant (including a medieval word, " champerty &qu...
Friday, July 12, 2019

Peter Jaworski on paid and unpaid plasma donation in Canada

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Peter Jaworski in the Globe and Mail: There’s a way to avoid blood plasma shortages: pay donors and on the radio in Calgary (it isn'...
Thursday, July 11, 2019

Plasma shortage alert from the IDF--the Immune Deficiency Foundation

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Patients with primary immunodeficiencies don't produce antibodies, and depend on immunoglobulin, one of the primary plasma products pro...
Wednesday, July 10, 2019

The Wakley–Wu Lien Teh Prize Essay 2019: telling the stories of Chinese doctors

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I'm on my way to China to talk with quite a few Chinese doctors, and so this recent item in The Lancet caught my eye: The Wakley–Wu L...
Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Stony Brook Workshop on Simplicity and Robustness in Complex Markets, July 11 - 12

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Workshop on Simplicity and Robustness in Complex Markets, July 11 - 12, 2019 Organizers: Michal Feldman (Tel-Aviv University) Brendan ...
Monday, July 8, 2019

Congratulations to Yannai Gonczarowski

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Yannai Gonczarowski , who will be  a post-doc at Microsoft Research New-England starting this summer, has collected some awards... Here are...
Sunday, July 7, 2019

Economics and CS at the Association for Computing Machinery

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The special interest group within the association for computing machinery that runs activities related to economics and computation (e.g. t...
Saturday, July 6, 2019

Market design in the May Games and Economic Behavior

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I've just gotten around to looking at the May issue of Games and Economic Behavior , and it contains several exciting market design pap...
Friday, July 5, 2019

Exchange programs requiring balanced exchange, by Dur and Ünver

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Some exchange programs require balance--such as exchanges of students among colleges, e.g. for study abroad.  Here's a paper addressing...
Thursday, July 4, 2019

FUCT up, censorship down in Supreme Court trademark decision

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 The WSJ has the story: Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on Immoral or Scandalous Trademarks The decision is a win for California clothing...
Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Lay attitudes towards organ donation from executed prisoners--by Bar-Hillel and Lavee

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Here's a new paper reporting a survey, forthcoming in Behavioral Public Policy Lay attitudes toward involuntary organ procurement fr...