Saturday, April 30, 2011

Designing "hidden markets"--Sven Seuken

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Yesterday  Sven Seuken  defended his dissertation, which is on the interface of CS and Economics. In particular, he is interested in designi...
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Friday, April 29, 2011

First kidney exchange in Spain

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La Vanguardia reported yesterday on a nondirected donor chain, the first in Spain (and I think the first kidney exchange in Spain): Éxito ...
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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Expectations and reference points: Andreas Fuster

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Andreas Fuster successfully defended his dissertation today on various aspects of behavioral economics. The part that was his job talk was ...

Deceased donor kidney allocation--webinar today

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The UNOS Kidney Transplantation Committee proposal to change the existing kidney-allocation policy for deceased donors Webinar: Thursday...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

The underlying structure of matching models: Scott Kominers

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Scott recently finished his unusually well attended dissertation defense. He's engaged in a wide ranging effort to prove all the famil...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

A match for the law firm market?

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Paul Kominers points me to this item: New ‘JD Match’ to Help Law Firms Find Law Students to Interview; K&L Gates Giving Service a Tryout...
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Monday, April 25, 2011

Pre-kindergarten and school choice in Boston

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Boston has a pre-kindergarten program that doesn't have enough spaces to meet demand, particularly because it is an entryway into the fu...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

Ad for custom egg donor

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An ad in the Harvard Crimson (the student newspaper) reflects some of the fast-changing world of same-sex marriage and the market for repro...
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Saturday, April 23, 2011

Misc. repugnant transactions

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Kung Pao Kitten  (a recipe meant as a joke, that elicited lots of complaints...) Student suspended from fraternity for having sex with g...
Friday, April 22, 2011

Susan Athey and the National Medal of Science

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No, not yet. But this. The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release April 21, 2011 President Obama Announces More...

Laws against polygamy to be tested in Canada

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Canadian laws against polygamy will be tested in a suit brought against some of the inhabitants of the rural enclave of Bountiful, British C...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Exploding offers and the market culture of law reviews

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Here's an April 19 open letter To the legal community from a number of student-edited law journals. " In recent years, many law ...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

A danceable economic experiment on public good provision

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Lights! Dancers! Economics! "If Milton Friedman and Martha Graham had a love child, it might look something like the "Tragedy of...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Mixed martial arts: a formerly repugnant transaction?

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New York State is one of the few holdouts, and a recent Op-Ed in the NY Times anticipates that will end: It Only Looks Dangerous "MIX...
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Monday, April 18, 2011

Jon Levin, Clark Medalist

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Among a long list of accomplishments , the AEA includes these: " The Organization and Design of Markets A second main strand of Levi...
Sunday, April 17, 2011

Edelman on Bloomberg on Google

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Antitrust regulation is of course a form of market design. Ben Edelman talks about his concerns here .
Saturday, April 16, 2011

Jeff Ely on market design

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Jeff Ely is a very serious microeconomist indeed, so it isn't cheap talk when he gives market design a big compliment and  writes of: ...
Friday, April 15, 2011

High school choice in New York City

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The outcome of the main match for positions in NYC high schools has come out, and about 8,000 children (out of somewhat more than 80,000) di...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

France Enforces Ban on Full-Face Veils in Public

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Here's the story in the NY Times. " A French ban outlawing full-face veils in public, the first to be enacted in Europe, came in...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Delayed college admissions

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The NY Times reports on a new trend in enrollment management: Admission to College, With Catch: Year’s Wait "Now, as colleges are inc...
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