Monday, April 30, 2018

Deferred rejection: longer college admission wait lists

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College waiting lists are a bit of a misnomer--they aren't ordered lists, they are more like waiting pools from which candidates can be...
Sunday, April 29, 2018

Kidney exchange amendment proposed for Hong Kong organ donation law

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A bill introduced in Hong Kong clarifies that kidney exchange doesn't count as (forbidden) "inducement" to donate an organ un...
Saturday, April 28, 2018

Ticket scalping in Hong Kong

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I don't know how big of an issue it is, but this story on ticket scalping was prominently displayed in the South China Morning Post the...
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Friday, April 27, 2018

Marijuana markets--States' rights?

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The Trump administration has an ever more complicated relationship with the growing legalization of marijuana by American states (see previ...
Thursday, April 26, 2018

Religiosity of non-directed kidney donors

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Here's an online early view of a paper from the Journal of Clinical Nursing (and see some related blog posts at the end of this post): ...
Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Merit versus financial need in college financial aid

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Colleges give discounts. Who knew?  The WSJ has the story: Prizes for Everyone: How Colleges Use Scholarships to Lure Students Merit awa...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

2018 BEIJING INTERNATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE EXHIBITION

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I am on my way to the auto show in Beijing as a guest of NIO, the Chinese electric car company. From Google translate: " **...
Monday, April 23, 2018

Stanford celebrates Paul Milgrom

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Paul Milgrom on challenging the status quo to solve real-world problems " The author of more than 100 seminal   research papers   an...
Sunday, April 22, 2018

Deceased donor kidney exchange chain in Italy (and some Italian kidney politics)

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First, some excellent transplant news from Italy: A deceased donor kidney exchange transplant chain has been conducted there. Here's so...
Saturday, April 21, 2018

FCC receives Edelman award for incentive spectrum auction

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Advancing wireless communication: FCC awarded the 2018 INFORMS Edelman Award, the leading award in analytics and operations research &quo...
Friday, April 20, 2018

Parag Pathak wins the American Economic Association's Clark Medal

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Here's the announcement, which describes Parag's work well: Parag Pathak, Clark Medalist 2018 Parag Pathak See my earlier p...

Should (government) economists be licensed? (Replies from a panel of academic economists)

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The question below, on Occupational Licensing for Economists , is the latest question answered by the distinguished panel of (academic) eco...
Thursday, April 19, 2018

Antitrust and competition in an internet economy: conference at the Stigler Center

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Here's where I'll be today (unfortunately only for the first day of a two day conference), speaking about promoting/preserving comp...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Frontiers of Market Design at Cornell (joint with EC), June 22

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Frontiers of Market Design The first Frontiers of Market Design workshop will be held in Cornell University , Ithaca, NY on June 22, 20...