Showing posts with label spain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spain. Show all posts
Friday, November 29, 2024

Cheating on exams in India , and exam design suggestions from Spain

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 India, where government jobs are allocated based on scores on a variety of national exams, cheating is a big business. One form it takes is...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Kidney exchange between Portugal and Spain, and prospects for global kidney exchange

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 Here's an article from a Portuguese hospital that has engaged in kidney exchanges with Spanish hospitals that have resulted in three tr...
Friday, April 7, 2023

Surrogacy in Spain is hard to suppress

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  In a widely reported story, a Spanish celebrity has become the surrogate mother of her grandchild, with the help of sperm from her decease...
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...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Spain's stolen babies (from the NY Times)

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The sale of babies is widely regarded as repugnant, but it has been used for political purposes in the dark days of Spain, and Argentina.  H...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

School choice in Latin America, in BBC News Mundo

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 A news story with an unusually detailed account of school choice algorithms discusses some of the issues in Latin America, in Spanish, in B...
Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Economists support Andreu Mas-Colell

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  In El Pais (plus Google translate): 33 premios Nobel de Economía y otros 20 destacados economistas escriben en defensa de Andreu Mas-Colel...
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Crisis in Catalonia, and Andreu Mas-Colell

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  Catalonia's crisis has been in the news again, with different parts of the Spanish government taking different views about reconciliat...
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,...
Thursday, January 2, 2020

Global kidney exchange: continued controversies, perhaps moving towards resolution

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As 2019 came to a close, several articles reminded us that global kidney exchange (GKE), while gaining increasing acceptance, still is reg...
Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Repugnance in Spain: surrogacy and prostitution

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I've relatively recently started to pay attention to repugnance in Spain, here are some useful older links. From El Pais: Spain stru...
Sunday, January 20, 2019

Surrogacy as viewed from Spain (where it is illegal)

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Not late-breaking news, but here are some El Pais reports that reflect the ongoing situation in Spain: Spain struggles with surrogate pre...
Friday, September 21, 2018

Surrogacy in Spain

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El Pais has the story: Spanish couples undergoing surrogacy processes left in legal limbo in Ukraine A total of 30 families are unable t...
Saturday, June 30, 2018

Frontiers of Knowledge Awards 2018, video of the presentation ceremony

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Presentation ceremony of the 10th edition of the Frontiers of Knowledge Awards 18/06/2018 Bill Nordhaus at the BBVA Award ceremo...
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Tim Bresnahan, Ariel Pakes and Rob Porter win BBVA Award, for their pioneering work in industrial organization, and Bill Nordhaus wins for his work in climate change

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Breaking news: The BBVA Foundation recognizes Bresnahan, Pakes and Porter for opening up the field of empirical industrial organization ...
Monday, January 15, 2018

Spain continues to lead in deceased donation

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I'm in Rome to talk today with the 28 EU Competent Authorities on Organ Donation and Transplantation about ways of increasing living do...
Saturday, August 5, 2017

Interview on market design in Mundo Empresarial (in Spanish)

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Recent mail brought a copy of the Summer issue (Segudo Trimestre 2017) of Mundo Empresarial to my desk, and it contains a multi-page interv...
Friday, May 5, 2017

Highlights from the Barcelona GSE 10th Anniversary Celebration

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You can find videos and photos from the 10th anniversary celebration of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (BGSE) here .  (The cele...
Monday, April 3, 2017

Surrogacy (and transplantation) in Spain

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The Director of Spain's National Transplant Organization has an article comparing transplants to surrogacy (presently illegal in Spain)...
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Friday, March 31, 2017

Barcelona Graduate School of Economics celebrates its 10th anniversary

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The Barcelona Graduate School of Economics is 10! There are a number of events and workshops . The main celebration of this...