Sunday, September 6, 2009

Roommate matching

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"Male or female? Smoker or nonsmoker? Those two questions have long been the basis for the University of Arizona’s roommate-pairing for...
Saturday, September 5, 2009

Weeding as market regulation

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We have what our friend Bettina Klaus calls a Sisyphus garden: we can weed for an hour whenever we want, and get trashbags full of biomass....
Friday, September 4, 2009

Market Design Blog: the second year

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Peter Coles and I began this blog in September 2008 to provide some additional motivation and context for our market design course . We were...
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Thursday, September 3, 2009

Kidney donations, incentives, sales, legislation

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An interview including Alex Tabarrok, Sally Satel, and Frank Delmonico, covering the range of viewpoints on the subject. "Last year Pe...
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Bebchuk on bonuses

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Bonus Guarantees Can Fuel Risky Moves by Lucian Bebchuk in the WSJ: "Financial firms seeking to attract and retain talent are reported...

Policing the lobster commons

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Lobsters are caught in traps that sit on the sea floor, marked by (and recovered via) buoys that float above, connected to the trap by a rop...
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Craigslist and spam

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Wired has a long article about Craigslist and its founder; the tone is simultaneously admiring and baffled: Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess . ...
Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Market for short basketball players

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In China, "The Dream Basketball League was set up to allow players of "shorter" stature to compete on a level playing field, ...

"Girl taxi" and "Ladies Nights"

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The WSJ reports 'Girl Taxi' Service Offers Haven to Beirut's Women . "...these days the city's transport staple is fac...
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Monday, August 31, 2009

Market design courses this Fall at Harvard and MIT

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In a sign that market design is taking root, there are four relevant courses being offered this Fall along the banks of the Charles. (Some a...
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Health insurance and incentive compatibility

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A widely linked post, called Unconscionable Math by the blogger known as Taunter discusses why health insurance companies don't try ha...
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Sunday, August 30, 2009

Misc. organ transplant links

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The links below, which I collected over some time but never turned into blog posts, all have something interesting to say about transplantat...
Saturday, August 29, 2009

Made in the USA, but also sold in Canada

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We're advised to "think locally and act globally," and the product labels on my new shoes illustrate some of the tension betwe...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Further unraveling of pool chair reservations

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Germans can now grab poolside chairs even earlier "The German arm of Thomas Cook, Europe's second largest travel company, has been ...
Thursday, August 27, 2009

Matchmaking for pet dogs in India

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The New York Times reports on an emerging problem of dogs owned by the Indian middle class: Matchmaking in India: Canine Division "“Whe...
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Dog fighting

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Here's a Texas story about an undercover police operation--with the undercover policemen hosting a number of fights--that led to many ar...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

The education business: Stanley H. Kaplan R.I.P.

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Education isn't a marketplace that supports only schools; it also supports test making companies , and test preparation companies. The f...
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Coming of Road Rage in Samoa

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Unless the government backs down, Samoa will change from driving on the right to driving on the left (British Commonwealth style) on Septem...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Ecclesiastical Insurance

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Before you read this post, what do you think Ecclesiastical Insurance insures against? (It turns out to have more to do with hot lead than ...
Monday, August 24, 2009

What if they ran an auction and nobody came?

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David Fahrenthold writes in the Washington Post about Maryland's unsuccessful attempt to buy back some crab fishing licenses via an auct...