Market design at the ASSA on Saturday

I'll attend as many of these as I can today.
A choice of three at 8am:

Advances in Dynamic Mechanism Design

Paper Session

 Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019   8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

 Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International 2

Hosted By: AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION

• Chair: Vasiliki Skreta, University of Texas-Austin, University College London, and CEPR

Mechanism Design with Limited Commitment

Laura Doval

,

California Institute of Technology

Vasiliki Skreta

, 

University of Texas-Austin, University College London, and CEPR

•  View Abstract
 
•  Download Preview (PDF, 607.72 KB)
•  Download PowerPoint (PDF, 262.74 KB)

Fiscal Rules and Discretion under Limited Enforcement

Marina Halac

,

Yale University

Pierre Yared

,

Columbia University and NBER

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•  Download Preview (PDF, 5.84 MB)

Social Insurance, Information Revelation, and Lack of Commitment

Mikhail Golosov

,

University of Chicago

Luigi Iovino

,

Bocconi University and IGIER

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Full Surplus Extraction in Mechanism Design with Information Disclosure

Daniel Krahmer

,

University of Bonn

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•  Download Preview (PDF, 247.54 KB)

Discussant(s)

Juan Ortner

,

Boston University

Rahul Deb

,

University of Toronto

Christopher Sleet

,

Carnegie Mellon University

Xianwen Shi

,

University of Toronto

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Practical Considerations in Deploying Matching Mechanisms

Paper Session

 Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019   8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

 Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International 9

Hosted By: AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION

• Chair: Alex Rees-Jones, University of Pennsylvania

How Well Do Structural Demand Models Work? Counterfactual Predictions in School Choice

Parag Pathak

,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Peng Shi

,

University of Southern California

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•  Download Preview (PDF, 4.21 MB)

Reducing Congestion in Matching Markets Using Informative Signals

Itai Ashlagi

,

Stanford University

Mark Braverman

,

Princeton University

Yash Kanoria

,

Columbia University

Peng Shi

,

University of Southern California

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Obvious Mistakes in a Strategically Simple College Admissions Environment: Causes and Consequences

Ran Shorrer

, 

Pennsylvania State University

Sandor Sovago

,

Vrije University Amsterdam

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•  Download Preview (PDF, 1.07 MB)

An Experimental Investigation of Preference Misrepresentation in the Residency Match

Alex Rees-Jones

,

University of Pennsylvania

Samuel Skowronek

,

University of Pennsylvania

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•  Download Preview (PDF, 741.80 KB)

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Auctions & Mechanism Design

Paper Session

 Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019   8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

 Atlanta Marriott Marquis, L503

Hosted By: ECONOMETRIC SOCIETY

• Chair: Scott Duke Kominers, Harvard University

Knowing What Matters to Others: Information Selection in Auctions

Nina Bobkova

, 

European University Institute (EUI)

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•  Download Preview (PDF, 807.62 KB)

Crowdsourcing and Optimal Market Design

Bobak Pakzad-Hurson

, 

Brown University

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•  Download Preview (PDF, 526.91 KB)

Mechanism Design with Ambiguous Transfers

Huiyi Guo

, 

Texas A&M University

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•  Download Preview (PDF, 474.84 KB)
•  Download PowerPoint (PDF, 258.92 KB)

Auctions with Entry Versus Entry in Auctions

Jiafeng Chen

, 

Harvard University

Scott Duke Kominers

, 

Harvard University

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Discussant(s)

Xianwen Shi

, 

University of Toronto

Rahul Deb

, 

University of Toronto

Luciano de Castro

, 

University of Iowa

Benjamin Brooks

, 

University of Chicago

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Here's one that combines market design with repugnance:

Sex, Drugs, Kidneys and Migrants: Economic Analyses of Contested Transactions

Paper Session

 Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019   10:15 AM - 12:15 PM

 Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International 5

Hosted By: AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION

• Chair: Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto

Testing for Repugnance in Economic Transactions: Evidence from Guest Work in the Gulf

Michael A. Clemens

, 

Center For Global Development

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•  Download Preview (PDF, 933.18 KB)

Paying for Kidneys? A Randomized Survey and Choice Experiment

Mario Macis

, 

Johns Hopkins University

Julio Elias

, 

University of CEMA

Nicola Lacetera

, 

University of Toronto

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Federalism, Partial Prohibition, and Cross Border Sales: Evidence from Recreational Marijuana

Benjamin Hansen

, 

University of Oregon

Keaton Miller

, 

University of Oregon

Caroline Weber

, 

University of Oregon

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•  Download Preview (PDF, 3.83 MB)

Crimes against Morality: Unintended Consequences of Criminalizing Sex Work

Manisha Shah

, 

University of California-Los Angeles

Lisa Cameron

, 

University of Melbourne

Jennifer Muz

, 

George Washington University

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Craigslist’s Effect on Violence Against Women

Scott Cunningham

, 

Baylor University

Gregory DeAngelo

, 

West Virginia University

John Tripp

, 

Baylor University

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Discussant(s)

Matthew Weinzierl

, 

Harvard University

Stefanie Stantcheva

, 

Harvard University

Jennifer Doleac

, 

Texas A&M University

Nicola Lacetera

, 

University of Toronto

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New Advances in Matching with Contracts

Paper Session

 Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019   2:30 PM - 4:30 PM

 Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International 10

Hosted By: AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION

• Chair: Larry Samuelson, Yale University

Matching with Complementary Contracts

Marzena Rostek

, 

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Nathan Yoder

, 

University of Georgia

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•  Download Preview (PDF, 443.50 KB)

Chain Stability in Trading Networks

John William Hatfield

, 

University of Texas-Austin

Scott Duke Kominers

, 

Harvard Business School

Alexandru Nichifor

, 

University of Melbourne

Michael Ostrovsky

, 

Stanford University

Alexander Westkamp

, 

University of Cologne

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Trading Networks with Frictions

Tamás Fleiner

,

Budapest University of Technology and Economics and Eötvös Loránd University

Ravi Jagadeesan

, 

Harvard University

Zsuzsanna Jankó

, 

Corvinus University

Alexander Teytelboym

, 

University of Oxford

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Carpooling and the Economics of Self-Driving Cars

Michael Ostrovsky

, 

Stanford University

Michael Schwarz

, 

Microsoft

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Discussant(s)

Scott Duke Kominers

, 

Harvard Business School

Ravi Jagadeesan

, 

Harvard University

Larry Samuelson

, 

Yale University

Edward L. Glaeser

, 

Harvard University

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The history of economic engineering, and other sessions at the ASSA today that I'll attend or wish I could

At the ASSA meetings this morning, I'll be discussing a session called

Economics and Engineering: Institutions, Practices and Cultures

Paper Session

 Friday, Jan. 4, 2019   8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

 Hilton Atlanta, 405

Hosted By: HISTORY OF ECONOMICS SOCIETY

·       Chair: Pedro Garcia Duarte, University of São Paulo

 

Engineering, Management Science, and American Economics, 1900 – 1940

Thomas Stapleford

,

University of Notre Dame

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Engineering and Economics at Stanford, 1950-1990

Beatrice Cherrier

,

University of Cergy-Pontoise and CNRS

Aurélien Saïdi

,

Paris Nanterre University and ESCP Europe

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German Fears in Economic Engineering: An Affective Criticism

Till Duppe

,

University of Québec-Montréal

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Discussant(s)

Alvin Roth

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I can't yet be sure what I'll say, but in my discussion of engineering and economics at Stanford I'll surely show a photo or two of Bob Wilson, maybe this old one:

Bob Wilson and Al Roth, Stanford IMSSS, 197x

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Later in the day (after some job-market interviewing) I plan to attend the

AEA/AFA Joint Luncheon

 Friday, Jan. 4, 2019   12:30 PM - 2:15 PM

 Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Imperial Ballroom

Hosted By: American Economic Association & American Finance Association

• Chair: Ben Bernanke, Brookings Institution

• Speaker: Susan Athey, Stanford University: The Impact of Machine Learning on Econometrics and Economics
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Since I haven't figured out how to be in two places at once, I'll miss

Putting the "Ec" in Tech: Economics at Tech Firms

Paper Session

 Friday, Jan. 4, 2019   12:30 PM - 2:15 PM

 Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Marquis Ballroom A

Hosted By: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BUSINESS ECONOMICS

• Chair: Carolyn Evans, Intel Corp.

How Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Can Impact Market Design

Paul Milgrom

, 

Stanford University

Steven Tadelis

,

University of California-Berkeley

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•  Download Preview (PDF, 865.75 KB)

Economics at Uber

Jonathan Hall

,

Uber

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Digital Disintermediation and Efficiency in the Market for Ideas

Christian Peukert

,

Catholic University of Portugal

Imke Reimers

,

Northeastern University

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•  Download Preview (PDF, 895.77 KB)

A Machine Learned, Real Time Measure of the Rate of Inflation

Patrick Bajari

,

University of Washington

Victor Chernozhukov

,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ramon Huerta

,

University of California-San Diego

Ashish Mishra

,

Amazon

Bernhard Schoelkopf

,

Max Planck Institute

•  View Abstract

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• Later, if the creeks don't rise, I hope to attend

• Market Design for Online Platforms

  
  

   Friday, Jan. 4, 2019   2:30 PM - 4:30 PM

   Hilton Atlanta, 223
  Hosted By: ECONOMIC SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
  ·       Chair: Yan Chen, University of Michigan

  Toward an Understanding of the Economics of Apologies: Evidence from a Large-scale Natural Field Experiment

  Basil Halperin
  , 
  Uber Technologies Inc
  Benjamin Ho
  , 
  Vassar College
  John A. List
  ,
  University of Chicago, NBER, Uber Technologies Inc.
  Ian Muir
  , 
  Uber Technologies Inc
  ·        View Abstract

  The Design of Feedback Revision Rules - An Experimental Study

  Gary Bolton
  , 
  University of Texas-Dallas
  Kevin Breuer
  , 
  University of Cologne
  Ben Greiner
  , 
  Vienna University of Economics and Business
  Axel Ockenfels
  , 
  University of Cologne
  ·        View Abstract

  Team Competition and Driver Productivity in Ride-sharing: A Natural Field Experiment at Didi

  Wei Ai
  , 
  University of Michigan
  Yan Chen
  , 
  University of Michigan
  Qiaozhu Mei
  , 
  University of Michigan
  Jieping Ye
  , 
  University of Michigan and Didi Chuxing Inc.
  Lingyo Zhang
  , 
  Didi Chuxing Inc.
  ·        View Abstract

  Discussant(s)

  Laura Gee, 
  Tufts University
  Chiara Farronato, 
  Harvard University
  Stephanie Wang, 
  University of Pittsburgh
  Chenyu Yang, 
  University of Rochester
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• and at 4:45
• Richard T. Ely Lecture Presiding: Ben Bernanke Speaker: David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Topic: Work of the Past, Work of the Future
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Public views of gene editing

Most Americans support gene-editing embryos to prevent diseases, poll shows

"Most Americans say it would be OK to use gene-editing technology to create babies protected against a variety of diseases — but a new poll shows they’d draw the line at changing DNA so children are born smarter, faster or taller.

A month after startling claims of the births of the world’s first gene-edited babies in China, the poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds people are torn between the medical promise of a technology powerful enough to alter human heredity and concerns over whether it will be used ethically.

...

"The AP-NORC poll shows about 7 in 10 Americans favor one day using gene-editing technology to prevent an incurable or fatal disease a child otherwise would inherit, such as cystic fibrosis or Huntington’s disease."