Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Thursday, July 23, 2026

Kidney exchange in Germany can draw on the experience in other countries

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 Here's an editorial arguing that as the recently legalized kidney exchange in Germany is implemented, attention should be paid to the c...
Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Surrogacy: a political scandal in Germany, and fertility tourism around the world

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 Here's a story in the NYT, covering an uproar that's been in the German newspapers for a week or so now.  A leader in the German go...
Friday, March 27, 2026

Germany legalizes kidney exchange !!

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 Axel Ockenfels forwards the good news.  He writes: "It passed! The Bundestag voted today to permit kidney exchange in Germany. The ...
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...
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...