Thursday, February 10, 2011

Experimental conference and summer school at Barcelona in June

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There will be lots to learn... 2nd LeeX International Conference on Theoretical and Experimental Macroeconomics , June 10-11, 2011at Univer...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Wake Forest coach donates a kidney to player

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The story is here , it was published yesterday, and I saw it only after yesterday's blog post of organ donation stories. " When a...
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Misc. organ donation stories

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Here's a live donor kidney site run a bit in the style of a traditional matchmaker ( שַׁדְּכָן ‎) by an orthodox Jewish woman who donate...
Monday, February 7, 2011

Through the looking glass of medical ethics: compatible pairs in kidney exchange

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Some time ago my colleagues and I observed that there would be really large gains in terms of increased numbers of transplants from inviting...
Sunday, February 6, 2011

Nonsimultaneous kidney exchange chains produce more transplants than simultaneous chains

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That's the conclusion of a new paper, Ashlagi, Itai, Duncan S. Gilchrist, Alvin E. Roth, and Michael A. Rees, ''Nonsimultaneous...
Saturday, February 5, 2011

Can we make school choice more efficient?

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A new paper by Eduardo Azevedo and Jacob Leshno addresses a recent puzzle in school choice: Can we make school choice more efficient? An E...
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Friday, February 4, 2011

Coalition Theory Workshop in Barcelona

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Today and tomorrow: The 16th Coalition Theory Network Workshop Barcelona, February 4-5, 2011 Matching and market design are well represent...
Thursday, February 3, 2011

Shift swapping in the Boston fire department

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The Globe has an illuminating article on a system originally intended to allow Boston fire fighters to trade shifts with one another without...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

College admissions in Texas: unintended consequences of the 10% rule

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Under the headline Strategic Displacement , Inside Higher Ed covers the recent NBER paper Jockeying for Position: Strategic High School Cho...
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Kidney exchange when hospitals are the players

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Itai Ashlagi and I have a new paper, motivated by recent developments in kidney exchange. Now that exchange is often proceeding through mult...
Monday, January 31, 2011

Carbon markets

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The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's Economic Research Service is running a conference today and tomorrow on the design of carbon markets: Ca...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

Fishing as an endangered but protected transaction

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Here in New England, the plight of the fishing industry, and particularly of independent fishermen who operate small "day boats" f...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

SBE 2020: Future Research in the Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences

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The NSF has made available all 244 papers received in response to its request  SBE 2020: Future Research in the Social, Behavioral & Ec...

The market for used books

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There have always been markets for used books , and it's one of the markets that has been most changed by the internet. I recently rece...
Friday, January 28, 2011

Unraveling of pathology fellowships

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A forthcoming paper in the journal Human Pathology gives a detailed account of the unraveling of the market for Pathology subspecialty fell...
Thursday, January 27, 2011

Sales by museums

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The NY Times reports on a Philadelphia museum's sales of parts of its collection to finance renovations, and on the controversy this has...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Call for papers: Game Theory in Trade and Development

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Avinash Dixit writes: "  I am organizing a two-day (July 19-20) workshop on applications of game theory in the fields of international ...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Kidney transplantation in Canada

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A new report, Treatment of End-Stage Organ Failure in Canada; 2000 to 2009 draws on data from CIHI's Canadian Organ Replacement Registe...
Monday, January 24, 2011

Swiss parliament proposes to decriminalize incest

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Switzerland considers repealing incest laws "The upper house of the Swiss parliament has drafted a law decriminalising sex between co...
Sunday, January 23, 2011

Sniping on eBay, in Australia (radio interview)

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Apparently eBay users in Australia are concerned about sniping (last minute bidding). I was interviewed for a radio report on the subject by...
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