Midway Market Design Workshop, July 9–11, 2014 University of Chicago Booth School of Business

This has been a good summer for market design conferences, and here's another:

Midway Market Design Workshop

July 9–11, 2014

University of Chicago Booth School of Business

ORGANIZERS

ALI HORTAÇSU, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

ERIC BUDISH, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO BOOTH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

SCOTT DUKE KOMINERS, HARVARD SOCIETY OF FELLOWS

NICOLE IMMORLICA, MICROSOFT RESEARCH

JASON HARTLINE, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

This conference will bring together researchers from economics and computer science to study the design of online and offline markets in a variety of settings. Rigorous modelling of incentives, strategic behavior, and asymmetric information will be the common thread among these researchers. Diverse applications ranging from securities trading to school choice mechanisms will be considered.

Wednesday, July 9

11:00am – 12:00pm

Market Design: Topics and Techniques

Nicole Immorlica

Microsoft Research

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Breakout Session

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Lunch

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Breakout Session

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Empirics of Multi-Unit Auctions

Ali Hortaçsu

University of Chicago

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Breakout Session

Thursday, July 10

9:00am – 9:50am

Inverse Optimization for the Recovery of Market Structure from Market Outcomes: An Application to the MISO Electricity Market

Michael Pavlin

Wilfrid Laurier University

9:50am – 10:40am

Semi-Robust Estimation and Redesign of Manipulable School Choice Mechanisms: the Case of Seoul

Sam Hwang

University of Chicago

10:40am – 11:10am

Break

11:10am – 12:00pm

Pragmatic Algorithmic Game Theory

Kevin Leyton-Brown

University of British Columbia

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Lunch

1:00pm – 1:50pm

Managing Congestion in Dynamic Matching Markets

Ramesh Johari

Stanford University

1:50pm – 2:10pm

Break

2:10pm – 3:00pm

Strategy-Proofness, Investment Efficiency, and Marginal Returns: An Equivalence

John Hatfield

University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business

3:00pm – 3:50pm

Double Auction with Interdependent Values: Incentives and Efficiency

Fuhito Kojima

Stanford University

Friday, July 11

9:00am – 9:50am

Need for Speed? Exchange Latency and Market Quality

Albert Menkveld

VU University Amsterdam

9:50am – 10:40pm

Price Constraints, Speed Competition, and Market Quality

Mao Ye

College of Business at Illinois

10:40am – 11:10am

Break

11:10am – 12:00pm

The High-Frequency Trading Arms Race: Frequent Batch Auctions as a Market Design Response

Eric Budish

University of Chicago Booth School of Business

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Lunch

- See more at: http://bfi.uchicago.edu/events/midway-market-design-workshop#sthash.hkWGY3Te.dpuf