Thursday, October 13, 2011

Unraveling: a brief review (and reply)

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The peer review process, for all its flaws, normally eliminates the need to write the kind of wide-ranging reply that I have forthcoming in ...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Another year of the judicial clerkship market: maybe the last one under the current system?

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Another year, more bad behavior by judges hiring clerks: Judges Compete for Law Clerks on a Lawless Terrain . (Banning cell phones in courth...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Unraveling in soccer: Real Madrid signs 7-year old

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Real Madrid signs 7-year-old "Real Madrid has signed a 7-year-old soccer prodigy from Argentina who goes by the name Leo... "...
Monday, October 10, 2011

Unraveling of presidential primary dates, continued

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Labor markets aren't the only things that unravel : the competition to be influential in selecting presidential candidates continues to ...
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Sunday, October 9, 2011

Leading indicator on economics job market, October 2011

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John Siegfried writes: " Here are data identifying the number of new jobs listed in the September and October JOE for recent years. ...
Friday, October 7, 2011

Wait-lists in college admissions

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Inside Higher Ed reports :  "at the annual meeting of the National Association for College Admission Counseling -- colleges' wait-...
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Thursday, October 6, 2011

Euroeconomistjobs.com, a site for jobs for economists in Europe

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Euroeconomistjobs.com caught my eye with this ad: Specialist: Industrial Economics, Organizational and Market Design UCL - Université C...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Mike Luca on Yelp

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My colleague Mike Luca (whose work I wrote about here  when he was still a grad student) has a paper on the influence of Yelp reviews on ...
Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Law schools and transfer students

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A recent paper discusses a growing trend: many law students transfer from the law school to which they are initially admitted to a higher ra...
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Monday, October 3, 2011

Kessler-Roth at the Health Law Policy and Bioethics Workshop today

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At 5pm today Judd Kessler and I will be speaking at Harvard Law School at this seminar *, on this paper **... It's open to the public...

If fur is repugnant (in West Hollywood, CA), why not leather?

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That's the question the NY Times asks ( Ban Fur? Then Why Not Leather? ) following the decision by the city of West Hollywood California...
Sunday, October 2, 2011

Vohra on "What is Market Design?"

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Ricky Vohra, thinking about how to construct a market design course, asks " What is Market Design? " Worth reading (and I hope h...

Public nudity: San Francisco is different

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In most places, public nudity is considered repugnant. Not in San Francisco: " Other nearby cities like Berkeley and San Jose have pa...
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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Cramton^3 on market design

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IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca Piazza San Ponziano 6, Lucca Italy  October 4-6, 2011  THREE LECTURES ON MARKET DESIGN  Peter ...
Friday, September 30, 2011

Brain dead patients as research subjects in xenotransplantation

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It turns out that economists aren't the only people willing to contemplate things that others may find repugnant... Mike Rees, the kidne...
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Thursday, September 29, 2011

The last bullfight in Catalonia

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Another transaction becomes repugnant: The last Ole! Bullfighting comes to an end in Catalonia Almost seven hundred years of Catalan bullf...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Harvard Nobel Prediction Market

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Ran Shorrer asks me to post the following announcement: It's that time of the year again! The recipients of the  Nobel Memorial Priz...
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Driving and voting while female in Saudi Arabia

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Find the repugnant transaction in this story... Saudi woman to be lashed for defying driving ban "A court in Saudi Arabia has sent...

Full tuition and college admissions

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The NY Times is shocked by the results of a survey of admissions officers: Universities Seeking Out Students of Means " More than hal...
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Monday, September 26, 2011

Dialysis: continued debate about tragic choices, and how to finance not having to make them

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This recent story about who pays for dialysis for uninsured illegal immigrants reminds me of the initial stories of how Medicare came to cov...