Friday, March 4, 2022

Penn celebrates Judd Kessler (with an endowed chair)

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  Here's the announcement:  Judd B. Kessler: Howard Marks Endowed Associate Professor "Judd B. Kessler has been named the inaugural...
Thursday, March 3, 2022

Matt Jackson wins the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics

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  The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance and Management has gone in this fourteenth edition to Matthew O. Ja...
Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Open letter of support for Ukraine from 163 Nobel Laureates

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  Nobel Laureate Support for Ukraine Nobel Letter      English   |   Ukrainian   |   Russian Nobel signatories Personal statement from the D...
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in the Field By Reshmaan Hussam, Natalia Rigol, and Benjamin N. Roth

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 Mechanisms designed to elicit truthful reporting in the laboratory sometimes are cumbersome to administer and difficult to explain.  Here&#...
Monday, February 28, 2022

Stanford-Lancet Commission on the North American Opioid Crisis

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 The recently released report of the  Stanford-Lancet Commission on the North American Opioid Crisis  made recommendations in 7 domains: Dom...
Sunday, February 27, 2022

2022 NSF/CEME Decentralization Conference on Mechanism Design, call for papers

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 2022 NSF/CEME Decentralization Conference   The Scope of Mechanism Design:  From Bespoke Mechanisms to General Insights   Multiple Location...
Saturday, February 26, 2022

Colombia decriminalizes abortion

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Sentiments about abortion seem to be shifting in opposite directions across the Americas. The NY Times has the story: Colombia Decriminalize...
Friday, February 25, 2022

Workshop in Experimental Economics at Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE), August 15 and 16, call for papers

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  The Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics : Workshop in Experimental Economics will be held in-person at Stanford University on Aug...
Thursday, February 24, 2022

Course on Matching, in Barcelona, by Péter Biró and David Manlove, April 27-28

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If you are a Ph.D. student interested in matching, here's a two day course in Barcelona, by experts in the field. V SEIO Course on Game ...
Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Cannabis and the law

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  The WSJ has this update: Push to Relax Marijuana Laws Hits Roadblocks . Biden administration has sidestepped the issue of decriminalizing ...
Tuesday, February 22, 2022

California State Assembly bill would reimburse living donor expenses

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 Here's some news about CA's newly proposed bill to reimburse living organ donor expenses. American Kidney Fund Applauds Introductio...
Monday, February 21, 2022

Kidney Transplant Collaborative

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 The Kidney Transplant Collaborative has a new grants program, that includes the following exciting initiatives : 1. Kentucky Organ Donor...
Sunday, February 20, 2022

2022 ESA World Meetings

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  2022 Economic Science Association (ESA*) World Meetings   at MIT,  June 13-16 The 2022 World Economic Science Association Conference will ...
Saturday, February 19, 2022

The Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research, call for nominations

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 April 10 is the deadline for new nominations for the 2022 awards. (Some nominations from last year will be held over for consideration this...
Friday, February 18, 2022

The Economic Theory Conference in Memory and Honor of Hugo Sonnenschein, April 29-30, U. Chicago

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  In April, a memorial conference honoring Hugo Sonnenschein: The Economic Theory Conference in Memory and Honor of Hugo Sonnenschein Date: ...
Thursday, February 17, 2022

Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Design at MSRI Berkeley in Fall of 2023

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  Here's an early announcement of a program at Berkeley's Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) . MSRI loves company, so i...
Wednesday, February 16, 2022

The Art Mart

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  Art galleries are (among other things) middlemen, intermediating between artists and buyers of art, who may range from passionate consumer...