Who Gets What and Why: The Economics of Life Choices from School Admissions to Kidney Exchange: SFUEconomics (video)

A video of the Bank of Montreal Lecture I gave at Simon Fraser University in November is now available:

Centennial lecture at U of Illinois College of Business (video of lecture and of an interview)

Here (and below) is the video of the public lecture I gave in October, and an accompanying interview, as part of the Centennial celebration at the University of Illinois College of Business, where I had my first academic job in 1974.

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Kidney Exchange: Algorithms and Incentives: video of my lecture at the Simons Institute

Here's a video (about an hour, with Q&A) of the talk I gave at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, at Berkeley, on Monday Nov 16.

Arrow Lecture in Jerusalem by Drew Fudenberg - Learning and Equilibrium in Games (video)

Drew begins his general-audience lecture by saying "I can't imagine anyone I would rather give a talk for than Ken Arrow." He then continues with a brief history of game theory.

Scott Kominers speaks about Strategy-Proofness, Investment Efficiency and Marginal Returns -- video

Here's a video of a recent lecture by Scott Kominers: Strategy-Proofness, Investment Efficiency and Marginal Returns

"In this presentation, Scott Duke Kominers noted that mechanism design tends to examine only the market clearing stage. The field treats human capital as a fixed or predetermined input, rather than a dynamic range of possibilities. His own model uncovers a relationship between three variables: strategy-proofness, investment efficiency, and marginal rewards."

Stanford Engineering Hero Lecture: Ken Arrow on his intellectual history and the history of Operations Research (video)

I've had occasion to think about Operations Research recently, and it's relationships with Economics.  Here's Ken Arrow recalling some early history.



Ken speaks about his intellectual history, and the history of Operations Research as a field and at Stanford. The question and answers at the end are a lot of fun too.

Ken's talk begins at around 7:30 of the video, after an introduction.
The occasion is the March 4, 2014 celebration of Ken as an Engineering Hero. 

Mini course in market design: video of the short course (4 lectures) I gave in Brazil

Here is the link to lecture 1 of 4, with links to the other three lectures as well.

IWGTS 2014 - Mini-course: Market Design

These lectures were delivered as part of the  Conference on game theory in honor of Marilda Sotomayor: July 2014.

Repugnant markets and forbidden transactions: video of my talk at Lindau

Here's a 30 minute video of my recent lecture at Lindau, on Repugnant Markets and Forbidden Transactions

 

Video - Alvin E. Roth (2014)

mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org

Arrow Lecture at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies: Repugnant Transactions

As part of the Summer School on Matching and Market Design, I'll be delivering the Arrow Lecture at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem today. It's open to the public:

Videos of the summer school lectures are available here. (Update: the video of my lecture is here: Alvin E. Roth (Stanford University) , Repugnant Transactions, 2014 ARROW LECTURE)

Video of my Sackler lecture on learning, with Ido Erev

The title of the paper that this will become is "Maximization, Learning and Economic Behavior."



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9cl_aKIHuc
This video is from the colloquium In the Light of Evolution VIII: Darwinian Thinking in the Social Sciences, hosted by the National Academy of Sciences, organized by Brian Skyrms, John Avise and Francisco Ayala, and held January 10-11, 2014 at the Beckman Center in Irvine, CA.

NAS research briefing--Market Design: The Economist as Engineer (short video)

The six NAS research briefings are available at NASonline.org at the link for the 151st annual meeting, on (one, long) video: six Research Briefings by new NAS members

They are all worth listening to. (You have to scroll down to get to the Research Briefings.)

My lecture starts at 47:30 (and you can get there directly by clicking on the link "Market Design: The Economist as Engineer. Alvin E. Roth" It's 20 minutes (it was supposed to be 15, with 5 minutes for questions, but I wasn't the worst offender...).

Not shown in the rush is the final slide from my Nobel lecture, about market design being a team sport:

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Update: here's a link that should take you directly to my lecture

Kidney Exchange and Operations Research: Edelman award presentation (video)

Here are all the 2014 Edelman Award Presentations, including the one my colleagues and I gave on kidney exchange, on March 31. Ours is the second from the top (the winning entry is first), and to see the video you have to scroll to the bottom of the description or our lecture (reproduced below) and click on "View Presentation." (I couldn't figure out how to embed it here.)

The video of our presentation (35 minutes) is more elaborate than most of the lectures I've done, since it includes some video footage. I joined Josh Morrison of the Alliance for Paired Donation and Itai Ashlagi of MIT in making the presentation.  Mike Rees spoke in some of the videos. Ross Anderson and David Gamarnik joined us to answer questions, and Tayfun Sonmez and Utku Unver joined for the celebratory dinner later in the day. (For our efforts, we are all 2014 Edelman Laureates.)

Alliance for Paired Donation with Boston College, Stanford University and MIT: Kidney Exchange

Presented by: Josh Morrison, Alvin E. Roth, Itai Ashlagi Authors: Alliance for Paired Donation:  Michael A. Rees, Michael.Rees2@utoledo.edu; Josh Morrison,joshcmorrison@gmail.com; Boston College: Tayfun Sönmez,sonmezt@bc.edu; M. Utku Ünver, unver@bc.edu MIT: Itai Ashlagi, iashlagi@mit.edu; Ross Anderson, rma350@gmail.com; David Gamarnik,gamarnik@mit.edu Stanford University:  Alvin E. Roth, alroth@stanford.edu Abstract: Many end-stage renal disease sufferers who require a kidney transplant to prolong their lives have relatives or associates who have volunteered to donate a kidney to them, but whose kidney is incompatible with their intended recipient. This incompatibility can be sometimes overcome by exchanging kidneys with another incompatible donor pair. Such kidney exchanges have emerged as a standard mode of kidney transplantation in the United States. The Alliance for Paired Donation (APD) developed and implemented an innovative operations research based methodology of non-simultaneous extended altruistic donor (NEAD) chains, which, by allowing a previously binding constraint (of simultaneity) to be relaxed, allowed better optimized matching of potential donors to patients, which greatly increases the number of possible transplants. Since 2006, the APD has saved more than 220 lives through its kidney exchange program, with more than 75% of these achieved through long non-simultaneous chains. The technology and methods pioneered by APD have been adopted by other transplant exchanges, resulting in thousands of lives already saved, with the promise of increasing impact in coming years. The percentage of transplants from non-simultaneous chains has already reached more than 6% of the total number of transplants from live donors (including directed living donors) in the last year. We describe the long-term optimization and market design research that supports this innovation. We also describe how the team of physicians and operations researchers worked to overcome the skepticism and resistance of the medical community to the NEAD innovation.

Webcast of the luncheon talks on market design from the 2014 AEA Annual Meeting

The AEA has posted a collection of webcasts from the 2014 annual meeting in Philadelphia, including from the
Nobel Laureate Luncheon
William Nordhaus; Paul Milgrom; Roger Myerson 
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The video is a little less than an hour: and consists of brief introductions by Nordhaus, and talks on market design and its history by Milgrom and Myerson, and a short talk by me with some thoughts on the future of market design as economic engineering and the science that supports it.  (spoiler: I think it will be important to study congestion...)
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Eleven 2014 Annual Meeting sessions are available online. (I enjoyed Claudia Goldin's magisterial address on gender and jobs, which reminded me of the work following up on this and the matching aspects of pursuing both careers and marriages, of our joint student Stephanie Hurder.):

•    AEA Presidential Address "A Grand Gender Convergence: Its Last Chapter" (Claudia Goldin)
•    AEA Awards Ceremony (William Nordhaus)
•    Richard T. Ely Lecture "Retirement Security in an Aging Population" (James Poterba)
•    Nobel Laureate Luncheon (Paul Milgrom, Roger Myerson, and Alvin Roth)
•    AEA/AFA Joint Luncheon (Jeremy Stein)
•    Chairman Bernanke Presentation (Ben Bernanke, Kenneth Rogoff, and Anil Kashyap)
•    What's Natural? Key Macroeconomic Parameters after the Great Recession
•    Discounting for the Long Run
•    Financial Globalization
•    Climate Change Policy after Kyoto
•    Macroeconomics of Austerity

Video of market design talk at USF

Not long ago I gave a talk at the University of San Francisco. My host was Professor Ludwig Chincarini, and he has posted this video of my lecture:

Matching with Couples - Video of my lecture at the Rothblum conference at the Technion

Here's the talk I gave at the memorial conference for Uri Rothblum at the Technion:
Matching with Couples (55 minutes)

Who Gets What: video of a lecture I gave at Stanford GSB

One hour of market design (45 minutes of lecture, 15 of very good questions and my attempts to answer them...)

"Published on May 13, 2013

Stanford University Professor and 2012 Nobel Laureate Al Roth speaks on his prize-winning research and ground-breaking successes with exchange markets and his life-saving favorite, kidney exchanges.

Dr. Roth was the keynote speaker for the GSB Spring Reunions on May 3, 2013. He was introduced by Dean Garth Saloner.

Roth is the Craig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics at Stanford University.

Related Links
http://alumni.gsb.stanford.edu/events...

Selected Works from Dr. Roth

http://www.stanford.edu/~alroth/

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"The practical power of game theory"

That's the title of Northwestern's news release about my 2010 Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture. (The title of the lecture was "Market Design," and after some general introduction to market design I focused mostly on kidney exchange.) Here's the video (1 hour, 20 minutes).

Kidney exchange at Northwestern

Tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon I'll be giving the Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture at Northwestern, and I'll talk a lot about kidney exchange.

So it's a good time to mention a big exchange chain that was completed last month entirely at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, which has one of the biggest living donor transplant programs in the country: Sixteen Patients, Eight Kidney Transplants, Three Days... One Life Changing Event .

This was an innovative non-simultaneous altruistic donor chain, conducted over three days (with 3 transplants done the first day, 3 the second, and 2 the third.)

Here's a page containing (scroll down) a May 19 video interview with the non-directed donor, and two of the transplant docs, John Friedewald and Joseph Leventhal.

Some of my earlier posts on the revolution caused by non-simultaneous chains are below:

Advances in kidney exchange, in the New England Journal of Medicine

Kidney Exchange in People Magazine

Non-simultaneous kidney exchange chains

More non-simultaneous kidney chains

Progress towards a sensibly organized national kidney exchange.

(John Friedewald, the Northwestern transplant nephrologist interviewed about the story at the top of this post, is the chair of the UNOS Kidney Paired Donation Work Group charged with organizing a pilot national program...)

More Milgrom

Northwestern has put up a page of material following the 2009 Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics Lecture and Conference, including Paul's slides, and a video of his lecture.

There are also links to the slides and bibliographies of the talks given on Friday (including the 10 minute presentations given by panelists; now I'm working on my 1 minute talk...)


Vijay Krishna (Pennsylvania State University): Auctions and Information[Presentation and Bibliography - PDF]

Larry Ausubel (University of Maryland): Auctions with Multiple Objects[Presentation - PDF] [Bibliography - PDF]

Panel Discussion: Market Design.Moderated by Rakesh Vohra (Northwestern University)
Susan Athey (Harvard University) [Slides]
Preston McAfee (Yahoo! Inc.) [Slides]
Paul Milgrom (Stanford University) [Slides]
Alvin Roth (Harvard University) [Slides]

Stephen Morris (Princeton University): Trade and Information[Presentation - PDF] [Bibliography - PDF]

Bengt Holmstrom (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Agency Models[Presentation - PDF] [Bibliography - PDF]

John Roberts (Stanford University): Organizational Economics[Presentation - PDF]

And here is my previously posted unofficial conference photo.