Market Design

I post market design related news and items about repugnant markets. See my Stanford profile. I have a forthcoming book : Moral Economics The subtitle is "From Prostitution to Organ Sales, What Controversial Transactions Reveal About How Markets Work."

Showing posts with label shipping. Show all posts

Showing posts with label shipping. Show all posts

Friday, February 21, 2025

The dark-ship black market for sanctioned oil

Here's a paper that fills in the holes left in ship transport logs when they turn off their transponders. That happens a lot--more tha...

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Matching shipping containers to shippers

A matching problem that John Vande Vate is thinking about has to do with the large number of shipping containers that travel empty to thei...

Monday, August 15, 2016

There is a port in Oakland

In Pittsburgh it was sometimes said that Gertrude Stein's famous line about Oakland: "there's no there there," is about t...

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Ship insurance, ship ownership, and arms embargoes

The breakout of cold war politics regarding the emerging civil war in Syria casts some light on the insurance markets for ships. Briefly, th...

Saturday, August 22, 2009

The market for bulk commodity shipments

The transport of bulk commodities by sea is a business that depends on matching loads to ships. When times are good, ships may be fully book...

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