Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Friday, September 5, 2025

"Dark tourism" as a repugnant market in Germany

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 NPR's Planet money has a story about tourists visiting the site of Hitler's bunker in Berlin, and about "dark tourism" mo...
Thursday, July 10, 2025

Job search for Professor of Market Design: U. Mannheim and ZEW--Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

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Professor Achim Wambac h writes with news of a job opening in market design: Professor of Economics, Market Design (W3) Department of Econo...
Monday, September 9, 2024

Anticipating kidney exchange in Germany in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

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   Here's an op-ed in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, celebrating the anticipated beginning of kidney exchange in Germany. Der Volks...
Sunday, September 8, 2024

Simulating kidney exchange policies in Germany

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 Here are a set of simulations designed to help Germany establish a national (rather than a fragmented) kidney exchange system. Itai Ashlagi...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

Kidney exchange in Germany: draft of a proposed law

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  Yesterday the German Federal Cabinet published the draft of a law that would allow kidney exchange in Germany. Below is the text of the pr...
Friday, July 12, 2024

Growth pains for legal marijuana, in Germany and New York

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Transitioning from a thriving black market for marijuana to a regulated legal market isn't so easy. The Guardian has the story from Germ...
Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Child labor in soccer

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Many laws seek to protect children from being exploited in the labor market, and there is widespread repugnance when it appears that such ex...
Saturday, July 6, 2024

Morals and the limits of markets, WZB Berlin, 11 - 12 July 2024

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  Here's a conference that looks interesting: Morals and the limits of markets , WZB Berlin, 11 - 12 July 2024 Organizers:  Hande Erkut ...
Friday, May 10, 2024

Kidney exchange in Germany?

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  A draft law to make kidney exchange legal in Germany, and to allow nondirected donation, is making some progress: here (with the help of G...
Sunday, June 4, 2023

Organ donation day in Germany

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  Yesterday was organ donation day in Germany. Here's a post from the German Health Economics Association (DGGÖ):  Day of Organ Donation...
Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Kidney exchange, around the world and in Germany? German Health Economics Association (DGGÖ) webinar tomorrow

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Tomorrow  I'll be giving a talk in Germany ( 8am California time, 17:00 in Germany ), hosted by the German Health Economics Association ...
Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Market Design at the Max Planck Institute: Axel Ockenfels will become a Director, of ‘Economic Design & Behavior’

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 Here's the announcement from the Max Planck Institutes: Axel Ockenfels Appointed New Director at the Max Planck Institute for Research ...
Monday, November 21, 2022

Surrogacy guidelines: necessity, not convenience

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 As surrogacy becomes increasingly well established in the U.S., it is regulated not only by state laws, but  also via voluntary standards p...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Multiple offer mechanisms in school choice, when information gathering is costly

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  When it's costly to gather information needed to inform yourself about your own preferences, having a guaranteed offer in hand may jus...
Saturday, November 6, 2021

A step towards kidney exchange in Germany

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 Here's an announcement of the German Medical Association's endorsement of kidney exchange, in the Deutsches Ärzteblatt. Ärztetag sp...
Thursday, August 5, 2021

Course allocation at the Technical University of Munich, by Martin Bichler and Soeren Merting

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 Here's a paper describing a recently designed and implemented course assignment system at the Technical University of Munich: Randomize...
Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Course allocation at Eötvös Loránd University, by Attila Rusznák, Péter Biró, and Rita Fleiner)

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At  Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary, there's a course allocation system that gives rise to intense course exchange after its officia...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

A glimmer of hope for German kidney transplants: a discussion of kidney exchange

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 Axel Ockenfels (who, along with Dorothea Kubler has been at the forefront of advocating for kidney exchange in Germany) forwards me this an...
Thursday, March 4, 2021

Vaccine supply and delivery in Germany: I'm interviewed in Zeit

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 Here's an interview in the German newspaper Zeit, in which I was asked in early February about the vaccine rollout here and there. (Goo...
Thursday, July 30, 2020

Surrogacy and global kidney exchange receive popular support even where banned, in PNAS by Roth and Wang

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Popular repugnance contrasts with legal bans on controversial markets Alvin E. Roth and  Stephanie W. Wang PNAS first published July 29,...