Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Pollution permits: RGGI auction results

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RGGI , Inc. reports on their first auction. The WSJ environmental blog report, Capping Carbon: Northeast Utilities Pay to Pollute, But Does...
Monday, September 29, 2008

College football bowls

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How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games , an interview based on the paper Frechette, Guillaume , Alvin E. Roth, and M. Utku Unver , ...

Unraveling of college admissions--deadline creep

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It's not just early action and early decision anymore; regular college admissions can also unravel. The Chronicle of Higher Education re...
Sunday, September 28, 2008

Repugnant transactions in France

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Legendary French bistro Lipp accepts Coke— at arm's length (in their new Mexican branch:) "There are about a hundred wines on the ...
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Market for scientists

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The market for biochemists is changing: pharma and biotech beckon, the path to academic tenure is strewn with obstacles: "A decade afte...

Repugnant transactions in Australia and England: GM crops

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In many parts of the world, barriers have been raised to the sale of Genetically Modified (GM) crops. In Australia, they were legislated aga...

Market for certificates of deposit

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Do I Hear 4%? On This Site, Banks Bid for Your Cash The NY Times article talks about Money Aisle , a site on which banks bid for your deposi...
Saturday, September 27, 2008

Repugnant transactions in Saudi Arabia

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I call a transaction ' repugnant ' if some people want to engage in it, but others don't want them to. In Saudi Arabia these oft...

Market designer in chief

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Propublica compares the presidential candidates' thoughts on market design
Friday, September 26, 2008

Incentives for kidneys

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AAKP Supports Bill to Clarify Law Regarding Incentives for Organ Donations The American Association of Kidney Patients writes to the Senate,...

The market for old clothes

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In Haiti: The Afterlife of American Clothes Haitian entrepreneurs find value in our castoffs.

Houses cost more in the summer. Here’s why

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Tim Harford , reporting on the work of Rachel Ngai and Silvana Tenreyro of the London School of Economics, suggests it has to do with the th...

Virginity testing: Repugnant under S. African law...

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Zulus Eagerly Defy Ban on Virginity Test S. Africa's Progressive Constitution Collides With Tribal Customs "Yes!" the girls, a...

Auction design for bailout by treasury

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Peter Cramton and Larry Ausubul weigh in, in "Auction Design Critical for Rescue Plan" in The Economists' Voice "An aucti...
Thursday, September 25, 2008

Market for online music

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The Digital Media Association announces a new agreement on how to pay royalties for music that is heard but not saved.

Repugnance and the financial bailout

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There are lots of important market design issues being debated on-the-fly regarding the bailout of financial institutions. I am not surprise...

Market for display ads

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In view of the big market that has developed for ads linked to internet search, there is a lot of interest in improving the market for displ...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Market for litigation--litigation pools

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I had an interesting email exchange today with John Mackall of the law firm Seed Mackall LLP in Santa Barbara, and he encouraged me to post ...

Purchase for Progress

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Gates Foundation to Fund Experimental Food Aid Program "UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 24 -- The world's largest philanthropy on Wednesday a...

Pollution permits: RGGI auction

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The Regional Greenhouse Gas Inititative prepares to hold its first auction tomorrow: Emissions auction aims to be US model Power plants in 1...