Monday, July 9, 2012

Who Gets What: the new economics of matchmaking and market design: Public Lecture

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Sydney Ideas (Public Lecture): Who Gets What: the new economics of matchmaking and market design What are markets and marketplaces? How...
Sunday, July 8, 2012

Indian surrogates bearing British babies

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The Telgraph reports: how more and more Britons are paying Indian women to become surrogate mothers . "There are now up to 1,000 clin...
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Saturday, July 7, 2012

College admissions exams in China

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The NY Times reports: Test That Can Determine the Course of Life in China Gets a Closer Examination "In a country where education is...
Friday, July 6, 2012

Will circumcision become a repugnant transaction in Germany?

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A court in Germany has ruled that circumcising young boys for religious reasons amounts to bodily harm. Earlier attempts to ban circumcisi...
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Thursday, July 5, 2012

Priority for _live_ organ donation in Israel

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 I've recently posted about the new Israeli organ donation law which gives priority for deceased donor organs to those who have signed...
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Hannan Lecture at the Econometric Society Australasian Meeting ESAM12

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Session 36: E.J. Hannan Lecture  Session Chair: Nejat Anbarci, Deakin University Session type: invited Date: July 5, 2012 Time: 11:00 - 1...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Melbourne is a Centre for Market Design

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I will be bringing coals to Newcastle when I speak tomorrow about market design at the Econometric Society meetings in Melbourne, July 3-6....
Monday, July 2, 2012

Econometric Society Australasian Meeting (ESAM12) July 3-6

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In Melbourne, Australia... Keynote Speakers Jean Charles Rochet,  University of Zurich, Presidential Address Dale Mortensen,  Northw...
Sunday, July 1, 2012

How should we pay for kidney exchange?

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Rees, Michael A.,  Mark A. Schnitzler, Edward Zavala, James A. Cutler,  Alvin E. Roth, F. Dennis Irwin, Stephen W. Crawford,and Alan B.  ...
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Saturday, June 30, 2012

Sir John Hicks Lecture at the SAET 2012, July 1 in Brisbane

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Friday, June 29, 2012

Matching and Market Design talks at the SAET in Brisbane June 30 - July 3

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I woke up in Auckland NZ this morning (Saturday already) on my way to Brisbane, and I'll be speaking about kidney exchange tomorrow (Sun...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

Compensation for bone marrow donors is no longer being contested

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After a long fight (see these posts), it appears that bone marrow donors can be compensated (if they donate in the right way: Final Vic...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Unraveling of tech recruiting

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Revenge of the Nerds: Tech Firms Scour College Campuses for Talent "On college campuses these days, the top nerds are getting a tas...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

The internet and the market for summer rental housing

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Along with all the first order effects of the internet, it has had big effects on small markets, like secondhand books and, it turns out, v...
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Monday, June 25, 2012

University of Chicago adds a Z-list admissions option

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The Chicago Maroon reports  on an unexpectedly large class of 2016, as applications continue to grow, acceptance rates to fall, and the yiel...
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Sunday, June 24, 2012

Girls' lacrosse camps and college admissions

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College admissions begins early for high school and even middle school athletes, not just in big money sports like men's football and ba...
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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Kidney exchange pilot program: progress report

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The official name is the OPTN national kidney paired donation pilot program (KPDPP). The latest news release reports that in March 2012 ther...
Friday, June 22, 2012

Experiment on Medicare auctions

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Charlie Plott and two of his students have a recent QJE paper that employs an experiment to make a point about market design. They study the...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

ESA conference at NYU June 21-24 2012

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The  Center for Experimental and Social Science  (CESS) at the  New York University is is hosting the  Economic Science Association Confer...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Ship insurance, ship ownership, and arms embargoes

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The breakout of cold war politics regarding the emerging civil war in Syria casts some light on the insurance markets for ships. Briefly, th...