Showing posts with label thick markets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thick markets. Show all posts
Thursday, August 28, 2025

The Walras-Bowley Lecture: Fragmentation of Matching Markets and How Economics Can Help Integrate Them, by Kamada, Kojima, and Matsushita

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 Fuhito Kojima's 2023 Walras Bowley Lecture has just been uploaded to arxiv, and it looks to be an exciting contribution to the market d...
Monday, November 4, 2024

Should realtors be required to multiple-list homes for sale?

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  The WSJ has the story: An Industry Dispute Threatens to Shake Up How Homes Are Listed for Sale. Some real-estate brokerages are pushing to...
Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Interviews, flyouts and offers in the job market for new PhD economists, 2024-25

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  We may still be in a period of disequilibrium in the conduct of the market for new economists, as Zoom interviews have replaced in-person ...
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...