Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Controversial markets, black markets, and market design (in Brazil)

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 Below is a Youtube video of all the talks given at the 4th International Workshop on Game Theory and Economic Applications at the Universi...
Monday, July 27, 2026

Multi-hospital kidney exchange in Brazil

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An article in Floha de S. Paulo, tells of the first inter-hospital kidney exchange in Brazil:   Transplante renal pareado amplia opção para ...
Sunday, July 26, 2026

Program for the Workshop on Game Theory and Economic Applications, São Paulo, July 26-August 2

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  Here's a high level overview of the program , which begins today. And here's the detailed day by day program .   I'm expectin...
Saturday, July 25, 2026

4th International Workshop on Game Theory and Economic Applications, São Paulo, July 26-August 2

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 My old friend, colleague and coauthor Marilda Sotomayor is presiding over a big game theory conference in São Paulo this coming week.  Here...
Monday, March 9, 2026

Kidney exchange developments in India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Germany

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 Here are recent reports on kidney exchange from  India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Germany.  Atul Agnihotri:  SOMETHING REMARKABLE IS HAPPENI...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

Kidney exchange in Brazil (a clinical trial)

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Here's a video in which Mike Rees , the founder of the Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation ( APKD ) describes how (with the help of a g...
Saturday, November 8, 2025

Game theory in Brazil, July 26-Aug2: Call for papers

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 Marilda Sotomayor forwards the following call for papers: Game Theory scholar.  It is a great pleasure to invite you to participate in the ...
Thursday, October 10, 2024

Kidney exchange in Brazil, continued (with pictures)

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  In August I posted about a trip to Brazil  with  Mike Rees  where we traveled with  Dr. Gustavo Ferreira , the director of transplantation...
Monday, August 12, 2024

Kidney exchange in Brazil: prelude

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 Yesterday I flew home from a busy visit to Brazil, with Mike Rees and Dr. Gustavo Ferreira .   On Wednesday we all traveled to the capital...
Sunday, June 2, 2024

Kidney Exchange in Latin America and the Caribbean

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 Kidney exchange isn't yet thriving in Latin America, but the basic infrastructure is in place. It would make a lot of sense to jumpstar...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Stanford Impact Labs announces support for kidney exchange in Brazil, India, and the U.S.

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  Stanford Impact Labs has announced an investment designed to help the Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation (APKD) i ncrease access to kidne...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Prison gangs, in Latin America and in the U.S.

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 It's one thing to be able to capture and confine prisoners. When gangs are involved, it's quite another thing to control the prison...
Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Balance of violence: prison-based criminal cartels, the case of Brazil's PCC.

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The vexed relationship between banned markets and black markets is perhaps nowhere clearer than when prison based gangs of convicted drug de...
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Affirmative action in Brazilian universities: guest post by Inácio Bó

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 Recent legislation in Brazil addresses university admissions with affirmative action that targets multiple characteristics that individuals...