Showing posts with label queuing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label queuing. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Designing queues for overloaded waiting lists, by Jacob Leshno

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 Here's a paper by Jacob Leshno , with a really creative new contribution to the (venerable) queuing literature.  Leshno, Jacob D. 2022....
Saturday, August 20, 2022

Returning to your place in the queue following a failed kidney transplant

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 Here's a forthcoming paper that proposes that rejections of marginal kidneys could be reduced if recipients were guaranteed a shorter w...
Saturday, March 26, 2022

Queuing for ridesharing and organ allocation

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  Queues for ridesharing drivers at airports (where some trips are much better than others) lead to lots of rejected trips by those at the h...
Thursday, July 16, 2020

Market clearing by queuing, by Ashlagi, Leshno, Qian and Saberi

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Queue Lengths as Constantly Adapting Prices: Allocative Efficiency Under Random Dynamics Itai Ashlagi, Jacob Leshno, Pengyu Qian, and Am...
Thursday, November 22, 2018

Professional line sitters: Giving the gift of time

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Have an urgent need to shop Black Friday bargains, but don't like waiting on lines in the cold and dark?  There's a business that w...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

The politics (and incentives) of liver transplants

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From the LA Times:  California has long wait lists for liver transplants, but not for the reasons you think "About 7,000 people get ...
Saturday, August 13, 2016

Gaming the waiting list for a heart transplant

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The heart transplant waiting list is game-able, since your place on the list depends on what treatment you are getting. So your doctor can ...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

Buying a place in line to hear Supreme Court arguments

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Over at the Volokh Conspiracy Dale Carpenter has the story, and the URL is more informative than the headline:  http://www.volokh.com/2013/0...
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Friday, March 1, 2013

Child rearing by queuing

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In New York City, many of the good things in life for children are rationed by queue: Born to Wait:  For City Parents, a Waiting List for N...
Friday, November 11, 2011

How to allocate goods when the waiting list is essentially infinite. New queues for overloaded systems, by Jacob Leshno

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Matching is about who gets what when allocation isn't entirely by price. And a common means of allocating scarce goods is by waiting lis...
Thursday, August 26, 2010

The regulated market for cemeteries

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The NY Times reports, City Cemeteries Face Gridlock . "More than 50 years have passed since a major cemetery was established within t...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Random allocation, preferences, and welfare: a fish story

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Flying from Madrid to Boston on an Airbus with two aisles not long ago, two stewardesses proceeded in parallel down the aisles offering food...
Saturday, November 14, 2009

A grave problem of supply and demand

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Grave sites, once sold and occupied, are intended to be occupied for a very long time, and their sale can't easily be negotiated if more...
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Monday, September 28, 2009

Reserving spaces in crowded places

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It may be possible for vacationing Germans to reserve rental lounge chairs at a crowded beach or pool, but in Saudi Arabia it's a crime...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Behavioral game theory on the MA Turnpike

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A recent story in the Boston Globe sounds like a behavioral economics seminar on transaction costs: why are a third of the tolls on the Mass...
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Monday, June 29, 2009

Where the wait for a parking permit is 8 to 10 years

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In Rye, NY, that's apparently how long it takes to get a parking permit at the commuter rail station. The NY Times reports that the rece...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Queuing to tee up at the Bethpage State Park Black Course

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The USGA 2009 US Open golf tournament begins tomorrow, June 18. The host golf course is the Bethpage State Park Black Course. You have to b...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

''Not everything that is immoral has to be illegal'

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The quotation in the title of this post is from Romanian Justice Ministry legal expert Valerian Cioclei, and it comes from the NY Times sto...
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