Showing posts with label thick markets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thick markets. Show all posts
Friday, April 21, 2023

Transition from medical school to residency: defending the parts that work well (namely the NRMP Resident Match)

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This post is about a recently published paper concerning the design of the market for new doctors in the U.S.  But it will require some back...
Sunday, February 12, 2023

Super (bowl) markets

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 There's also a football game, but here are some other, related markets (gambling, advertising, deal making...). Gambling: WSJ: Watching...
Thursday, July 7, 2022

Coordinating the timing of the market for new Economics Ph.D.s: guidance from the AEA

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 Here's an email broadcast by the American Economic Association, aimed to promote market thickness by avoiding unraveling and dealing wi...
Thursday, September 19, 2019

History job market conference interviews are history

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Inside Higher Ed has the story on the history job market (which they conflate with the AEA's recent decision to try to eliminate interv...
Monday, July 22, 2019

Kidney exchange needs to be conducted at scale, in the AER by Agarwal, Ashlagi, Azevedo, Featherstone and Karaduman

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Market Failure in Kidney Exchange Nikhil Agarwal Itai Ashlagi Eduardo Azevedo Clayton R. Featherstone Ömer Karaduman AMERICAN EC...
Monday, July 18, 2016

Acquiring the first thousand customers in a two-sided market

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HBS Working Knowledge has a nice piece about a case study by Professor Thales Teixeira , How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First...
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Efficiency of thin and thick markets, by Li Gan and Qi Li

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Here's the published version of a paper by Li Gan and Qi Li on why it's good to be in a thick market... Journal of Econometric...
Monday, February 27, 2012

AEA announcements of a market design sort: conference organization and part-time teaching

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The AEA announcement email of 2/13/12 contains the following bits of market design aimed at managing congestion in a thick market, and creat...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Is the market for professors of English becoming less thick?

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That's the question raised by a recent article on the job market organized by the Modern Language Association: Realities of the Endless ...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

The Receivables Exchange and the NYSE

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I've been following The Receivables Exchange in several prior posts , and now the NYSE is interested too: today's WSJ reports NYSE ...
Sunday, January 10, 2010

European job market for economists: the RES meetings are coming up

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The ASSA meetings in Atlanta were held the first weekend of January, and while that was the main venue for preliminary interviews by North A...
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Monday, November 9, 2009

Competition among stock exchanges

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The NY Times has a story about how New Rivals Pose Threat to New York Stock Exchange . "While the exchange has been under assault since...
Monday, October 19, 2009

Kidney Exchange and Nurse Coordinators

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Lots of people play critical roles in making kidney exchange a reality, and a recent article emphasizes the enormous role played by nurse co...
Saturday, October 3, 2009

Hotbeds of innovation: food in Portland

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Why are Silicon Valley and Cambridge MA hotbeds of innovation? A nice NY Times story about the culinary scene in Portland Maine, by Julia Mo...
Thursday, August 20, 2009

Factoring

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If you do a google search on " factoring ," the first few organic results are on factoring numbers, but the ads are all about fact...
Sunday, July 26, 2009

House flipping fraud in Florida

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I received the following email from Eric Budish , the Chicago market designer: "I came across a neat investigative journalism feature o...
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Monday, July 20, 2009

Credit markets, old and new: The Receivables Exchange

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The WSJ reports CIT's Woes Prompt Surge In Activity At Receivables Exchange . "The turmoil surrounding finance giant CIT Group Inc....
Monday, July 6, 2009

Rental market for textbooks

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Here's a story about Chegg.com , which rents textbooks: We Rent Movies, So Why Not Textbooks? "Yet the Craigslist model didn’t work...
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Sunday, June 14, 2009

Education for matching

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David Brooks reflects on what to tell high school graduates, and he thinks about skills we don't teach for making matches: Advice for Hi...
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Sunday, May 3, 2009

Market for sabbatical homes

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Professors and some other kinds of teachers have periodic leaves, for a semester or an academic year, that don't match well with the usu...
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