Monday, June 6, 2022

A beachfront lot for you in the metaverse--or maybe an experimental lab

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  With Facebook transforming itself into Meta , we're starting to hear a lot about the metaverse , a term that may have been coined by ...
Sunday, June 5, 2022

Econometric Society Summer School in Dynamic Structural Econometrics: Market Design

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Market design isn't just about game theory these days: Econometric Society Summer School in Dynamic Structural Econometrics: Market Desi...
Saturday, June 4, 2022

NBER workshop on market design: Stanford November 4-5

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 Here's an announcement that arrived by email: To: NBER Market Design Working Group From: Eric Budish, Jakub Kastl, and Marzena Rostek...
Friday, June 3, 2022

Organ transplants and capital punishment don't go well together

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  I recently blogged about a paper by Robertson and Lavee in the American Journal of Transplantation, looking at surgeries conducted in Chi...
Thursday, June 2, 2022

Stanford Economics Site Conferences 2022

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Here's the full set of sessions for this summer:  Program Overview How Should We Fund Science?  (June 30-June 30, 2022) The Economics of...
Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Health data and privacy, in a world of overlapping data

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 Re-identifying de-identified data, by combining it with other data sets, sometimes provides a way of legally circumventing medical privacy ...
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Food fight in California: Foie gras is legal for private consumption from out of state providers

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  The Ninth Circuit has confirmed a nuanced lower court verdict about foie gras, in the latest episode of a long running California food fig...
Monday, May 30, 2022

Eliminating cruelty (and methane) from the food chain: lab-grown ("no-kill") meat

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  The Guardian has the story: World’s largest vats for growing ‘no-kill’ meat to be built in US  by Damian Carrington " The building of...
Sunday, May 29, 2022

Tipping in taxis

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 The WSJ writes about a working paper about tipping in taxis by my Stanford GSB colleague (and taxi driver emeritus)  Kwabena Donkor . Here&...
Saturday, May 28, 2022

EU purchases of Russian natural gas: some market design thoughts

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 Coordinated action might help the EU curb how much it spends on Russian natural gas. Here are some thoughts by Cramton, Lévêque, Ockenfels ...
Friday, May 27, 2022

Personal data as a national (not international) resource

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  The NY Times has the story: The Era of Borderless Data Is Ending . Nations are accelerating efforts to control data produced within their ...
Thursday, May 26, 2022

Displaced people passes 100,000,000

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 The Guardian has the story, focusing on the causes of displacement. But efficiently matching diverse refugees to places of temporary or per...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Matching prisoners to jails: peer effects are of first order importance

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 Akhil Vohra points me to this very interesting matching problem, which is apparently quite far from a good solution: RIKERS ISLAND: City J...
Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Erling Skancke defends his dissertation

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 Erling Skancke defended his dissertation last week: Here's his job market paper: Welfare and Strategic Externalities in Matching Marke...
Monday, May 23, 2022

Gabe Carroll and Jamie Morgenstern win the Social Choice and Welfare Prize

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Congratulations to Jamie Morgenstern and Gabe Carroll . Their joint prize is a sign of how economics and computer science are advancing bot...
Sunday, May 22, 2022

Seventh Marketplace Innovation Workshop (MIW), May 23-26, 2022 (10:45am EST - 2:45pm EST)

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  Seventh Marketplace Innovation Workshop (MIW) ,  May 23-26, 2022 (10:45am EST - 2:45pm EST)   The conference will be virtual Here is the p...
Saturday, May 21, 2022

Iowa State University celebrates Bertan Turhan

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 The Iowa State University News Service has an article about the market design work of Bertan Turhan . New model could improve matches betw...
Friday, May 20, 2022

Research on pedophilia presents career hazards

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 It's not always easy to investigate repugnant things, let alone crimes.  Old Dominion University has parted ways with an assistant prof...
Thursday, May 19, 2022

Frontiers of Economic Design (FED): Ellen Muir and I speak tomorrow (Friday) on Zoom

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  We hope to start off this new seminar with a bang (9am Pacific time, noon on the East Coast, 18:00 in middle Europe...) To hear us you hav...

Black market tattoos in S. Korea: “No one’s trying to go to medical school to become a tattoo artist,”

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 Tattooing is illegal (but tattoos are not) in S. Korea.  The NY Times has the story: Tattoos, Still Illegal in South Korea, Thrive Undergro...