Market design at the ASSA meetings in Chicago

First, good luck to all those on the job market at the ASSA meetings going on in Chicago now.


The ASSA meetings aren't only a job market, however, and there are a number of sessions in which papers on matching and market design are being presented . These are the ones I noticed on scanning the program:


Jan 06, 2012 12:30 pm, Hyatt Regency, New Orleans 
Transportation & Public Utilities Group

Auction Design (L9)

Presiding: ERIC RALPH (Federal Communications Commission)

Auction Design for Universal Service

LARRY AUSUBEL (University of Maryland)

Procurement auctions to supply broadband over differing regions with quality differentiation

GIUSEPPE LOPOMO (Duke University)

LESLIE MARX (Duke University)

SANDRO BRUSCO (State University of New York-Stony Brook)

Distributing Universal Service Subsidies by Competitive Bidding

THOMAS HAZLETT (George Mason University)

Discussants:

GREG ROSSTON (Stanford University)

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Jan 06, 2012 2:30 pm, Hyatt Regency, Columbus EF 
American Economic Association

Incentives and Matching in Marriage and Dating Markets (J1)

Presiding: GARY BECKER (University of Chicago)

Matching with a Handicap: The Economics of Marital Smoking

PIERRE-ANDRÉ CHIAPPORI (Columbia University)

SONIA OREFFICE (University of Alicante)

CLIMENT QUINTANA-DOMEQUE (University of Alicante)

Peer Effects in Sexual Initiation: Separating Demand from Supply

SETH RICHARDS-SHUBIK (Carnegie-Mellon University)

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Terms of Endearment: An Equilibrium Model Of Sex and Matching

PETER ARCIDIACONO (Duke University)

ANDREW BEAUCHAMP (Boston College)

MARJORIE MCELROY (Duke University)

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Dating Market Incentives to Improve Physical Appearance

LORENS HELMCHEN (George Mason University)

TIMOTHY CLASSEN (Loyola University Chicago)

Discussants:

SCOTT CUNNINGHAM (Baylor University)

JEREMY FOX (University of Michigan)

ALOYSIUS SIOW (University of Toronto)

JOHN CAWLEY (Cornell University)

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Jan 06, 2012 2:30 pm, Hyatt Regency, Regency D 
American Economic Association

New Challenges for Market Design (A1)

Presiding: MURIEL NIEDERLE (Stanford University)

Individual Rationality and Participation in Large Scale, Multi-Hospital Kidney Exchange

ITAI ASHLAGI (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

ALVIN E. ROTH (Harvard Business School)

Holdout in the Assembly of Complements: A Problem for Market Design

SCOTT DUKE KOMINERS (University of Chicago)

ERIC GLEN WEYL (University of Chicago)

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Improving Efficiency in Matching Markets with Regional Caps: The Case of the Japan Residency Matching Program

FUHITO KOJIMA (Stanford University)

YUICHIRO KAMADA (Harvard University)

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Price Controls, Non-Price Quality Competition, and the Nonexistence of Competitive Equilibrium

JOHN WILLIAM HATFIELD (Stanford University)

CHARLES R. PLOTT (California Institute of Technology)

TOMOMI TANAKA (Arizona State University)

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Discussants:

PARAG PATHAK (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

THOMAS PALFREY (California Institute of Technology)

PAUL MILGROM (Stanford University)

MURIEL NIEDERLE (Stanford University)

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Jan 07, 2012 8:00 am, Hyatt Regency, Columbus KL 
American Economic Association

Price Theory and Market Design (D4)

Presiding: ERIC BUDISH (University of chicago)

Market Power Screens Willingness-to-Pay

ERIC GLEN WEYL (University of Chicago)

JEAN TIROLE (Toulouse School of Economics)

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The Form of Incentive Contracts: Agency with Moral Hazard, Risk Neutrality, and Limited Liability

JOAQUÍN POBLETE (London School of Economics)

DANIEL SPULBER (Northwestern University)

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A Supply and Demand Framework for Two-Sided Matching Markets

EDUARDO M AZEVEDO (Harvard University)

JACOB LESHNO (Harvard Business School)

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Multilateral Matching

JOHN WILLIAM HATFIELD (Stanford University)

SCOTT DUKE KOMINERS (University of Chicago)

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Discussants:

PIERRE-ANDRE CHIAPPORI (Columbia University)

DAVID SRAER (Princeton University)

THEODORE BERGSTROM (University of California-Santa Barbara)

ALI HORTACSU (University of Chicago)

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Jan 08, 2012 8:00 am, Hyatt Regency, Atlanta 
American Economic Association

Advance in the Theory of Contests and Tournaments (C7)

Presiding: RON SIEGEL (Northwestern University)

Head Starts in Contests

RON SIEGEL (Northwestern University)

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Contests with Endogenous and Stochastic Entry

QIANG FU (National University of Singapore)

QIAN JIAO (National University of Singapore)

JINGFENG LU (National University of Singapore)

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Sequential All-Pay Auctions with Head Starts and Noisy Outputs

ELLA SEGEV (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

ANER SELA (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

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The Optimal Design of Rewards in Contests

TODD R. KAPLAN (University of Exeter and University of Haifa)

DAVID WETTSTEIN (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

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Discussants:

RON SIEGEL (Northwestern University)

QIANG FU (National University of Singapore)

ELLA SEGEV (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

TODD R. KAPLAN (University of Exeter and University of Haifa)

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Jan 08, 2012 10:15 am, Hyatt Regency, Wrigley 
Econometric Society

Economics of Internet Markets (L1)

Presiding: JONATHAN LEVIN (Stanford University)

Multidimensional Heterogeneity and Platform Design

ANDRE FILIPE VEIGA (Toulouse School of Economics)

ERIC GLEN WEYL (Univerity of Chicago)

Price Discrimination in Many-to-Many Matching Markets

RENATO DIAS GOMES (Northwestern University)

ALESSANDRO PAVAN (Northwestern University)

Social Advertising

CATHERINE TUCKER (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Sales Mechanisms in Online Markets: What Happened to Internet Auctions?

LIRAN EINAV (Stanford University)

CHIARA FARRONATO (Stanford University)

JONATHAN LEVIN (Stanford University)

NEEL SUNDARESAN (eBay Research)

Discussants:

PRESTON MCAFEE (Research Yahoo!)

JONATHAN BAKER (American Universityi)

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Jan 08, 2012 1:00 pm, Hyatt Regency, Columbus CD 
American Economic Association

Designing Effective School Choice Mechanisms (I2)

Presiding: DIANE SCHANZENBACH (Northwestern University)

School Choice, School Quality and College Attendance

DAVID DEMING (Harvard University)

JUSTINE HASTINGS (Brown University)

THOMAS KANE (Harvard University)

DOUGLAS STAIGER (Dartmouth University)

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Charter School Entry and Student Choice: The Case of Washington, D.C.

MARIA M FERREYRA (Carnegie Mellon University)

GRIGORY KOSENOK (New Economic School-Moscow)

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Promoting School Competition through School Choice: A Market Design Approach

JOHN W. HATFIELD (Stanford University)

FUHITO KOJIMA (Stanford University)

YUSUKE NARITA (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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From Boston to Shanghai to Deferred Acceptance: Theory and Experiments on A Family of School Choice Mechanisms

ONUR KESTEN (Carnegie Mellon University)

YAN CHEN (University of Michigan)

Discussants:

KEVIN STANGE (University of Michigan)

JUSTINE HASTINGS (Brown University)

ONUR KESTEN (Carnegie Mellon University)

FUHITO KOJIMA (Stanford University)