Showing posts with label course allocation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label course allocation. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Course allocation at Stanford

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  The Stanford Daily has the story: New course enrollment system proposed to decrease stress and increase equity "An alternative enroll...
Monday, May 29, 2023

Further progress on course allocation, by Budish, Gao, Othman, Rubinstein and Zhang

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  Here are some new developments in the course allocation mechanism used initially in Wharton and now elsewhere.  It turns out that strategy...
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...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

Course allocation with minimum quotas, by Bichler, Hammerl, Waldherr, and Morrill

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Here's a course allocation problem:, "Our specific task was to assign students to classes in the computer science and information ...
Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Cognomos--course allocation software by Eric Budish et al.

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Cognomos is a site that will put school administrators in touch with the designers of  Wharton's Course Match, which I've blogge...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Unraveling of finance internships, and a black market for courses

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Mallesh Pai points me to this story in Philadelphia Magazine, from the University of Pennsylvania: Desperate for High-Paying Wall Street ...
Monday, August 3, 2015

Course allocation at Wharton: looking under the hood

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A new paper by Budish, Cachon, Kessler and Othman gives more detail on how the course allocation tool at Wharton works at a computational ...
Sunday, December 7, 2014

Students selling seats in popular courses

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An Unusual Honor-Code Violation: Students Selling Seats in Popular Courses (ungated access here:  http://www.aacrao.org/resources/resourc...
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Friday, December 6, 2013

Dan Fragiadakis (job market candidate)

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Among the economists I'm engaged with on the job market this year is Dan Fragiadakis . You should think about hiring him.  His job mar...
Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Course allocation at U. Toronto

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U of T students trade cash for seats in full classes University of Toronto students are buying and selling spots in fully-booked courses...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Wharton's new Course Match for MBA students to choose their classes: market design in action

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Eric Budish , Judd Kessler and Abe Othman  (all veterans of my market design class at Harvard) have been champions in helping Wharton adopt...
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Friday, August 31, 2012

Bad market design by design at U of Central Florida...and Craigslist?

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Course registration can be a pain, but at the University of Central Florida they apparently don't want anyone trying to make it easier: ...
Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Matching in the August AER

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Three papers in the August issue of the American Economic Review suggests that the study of matching is thriving. (2) A Field Stu...
Tuesday, June 1, 2010

A market design collaboration between an economist and computer scientists

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I've written earlier about the work on course allocation by Eric Budish . The new mechanism he proposed is by no means computationally...
Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Course allocation at HBS

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Some of the gems of the market design literature involve the careful analysis of existing institutions for allocating scarce goods, to unde...
Sunday, October 4, 2009

Course allocation by Budish, updated

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Eric Budish's updated (and still remarkable) paper is here: The Combinatorial Assignment Problem: Approximate Competetive Equilibrium Fr...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

Course allocation, by Eric Budish

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The problem of allocating courses to students is a famously hard problem of market design. The reasons include the fact that, in most applic...
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