Sunday, September 4, 2011

Call for papers: NBER market design conference, October 28-29, 2011

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Susan Athey and Parag Pathak have circulated the following call for papers. From: Susan Athey and Parag Pathak To: NBER Market Design Wor...
Saturday, September 3, 2011

Dating sites for French farmers

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If a dating site specializing in French farmers sounds specialized to you, consider the special problems of farmers: they are unusually immo...
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Friday, September 2, 2011

Signaling in Internet Dating Markets (and welcoming Soo Lee to Harvard)

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  Soohyung Lee  arrived today at Harvard where she'll spend the coming academic year as a research visitor, on leave from the University...
Thursday, September 1, 2011

First class tomorrow morning: slides on website

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For students in our market design class which starts tomorrow, some material for the first lecture is on the course website... http://isites...

Theory of privacy

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Several courses are being offered that deal with new theories of data privacy, concerning how to usefully answer queries from a database whi...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Multiple publication and plagiarism in economics journals

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An unusual insight into the culture of academic publication comes in a recently published letter from David Autor, the editor of the Journa...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

More on the taking of photos

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Here are two followups on my earlier post today on British Airways' claims about photographs . The first via Paola Manzini, concerns US ...
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British Airways Conditions of Carriage

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A disturbing incident at British Airways raises interesting questions about their Conditions of Carriage , the fine-print online contract th...
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Monday, August 29, 2011

Conference on Frontiers in Market Design

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Bettina Klaus  has announced two conferences on market design. The one that is imminent is Market Design Workshop on September 14th, 2011...
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Sunday, August 28, 2011

Transplant organs from executed prisoners

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In another sign of what constitutes a repugnant transaction, the American Journal of Transplantation now has this notice on its " Instr...
Saturday, August 27, 2011

Breast milk

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The barriers to sale of human breast milk seem to be falling. Duncan Gilchrist points me to this article in Wired: Liquid Gold: The Booming...
Friday, August 26, 2011

Market design courses in Boston this semester

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Boston is humming with market design courses. Tayfun Sonmez will be offering an undergraduate course on market design at Boston College:  ...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

School choice in New York City

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Thomas Toch and Neil Dorosin write about New York City high school choice in Education Week:  NYC Program Means Real Public School Choice fo...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Poker refugees

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April 15, 2011 has come to be known as Black Friday by online poker players in the U.S. On that day, indictments were issued against major o...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Child marriage

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Child marriage by very young children is under discussion again in Saudi Arabia, the Wall Street Journal reports. Part of the issue is just ...
Monday, August 22, 2011

Marriage supply and demand, and equilibrium behavior

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Two recent posts caught my eye. The first, by Robert Frank in the NY Times, speculates on how the baby boom may have changed sexual mores in...
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Sunday, August 21, 2011

Kieran Healy on markets for organs

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Kieran Healy is profiled at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, answering the question "Should there be a market for human organs?" ...
Saturday, August 20, 2011

Dynamic Games and Applications: Special Issue on Stochastic Games

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Dynamic Games and Applications Special Issue on Stochastic Games Guest Editors: Andrzej Nowak, Eilon Solan, Sylvain Sorin To celebrate t...
Friday, August 19, 2011

Will bullfighting become repugnant in Spain?

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The Guardian reports: Bullfighting saved from the sword as Spain rules it is an artistic discipline: Socialist government says ministry of c...
Thursday, August 18, 2011

Misc. kidney exchange

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A nondirected donor chain in Israel, apparently the first: 1st-ever ‘domino triple kidney-pair exchange’ saves 3 lives "Prof. Eitan ...