Sunday, September 30, 2012

Kidney exchange in Europe

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The Spanish transplant organization is attempting to collaborate with other European nations to create a bigger pool--a thicker marketplace-...
Saturday, September 29, 2012

An unusual non-directed kidney donor

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A recent kidney exchange NEAD chain (NEAD = non-simultaneous extended altruistic donor) began with quite an unusual altruistic donor. Appare...
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Friday, September 28, 2012

"Incentive" spectrum auctions take another step forward

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The NY Times reports on today's events in Washington:  F.C.C. Backs Proposal to Realign Airwaves "WASHINGTON — The government too...

Washington State liquor stores--followup on the auction

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As I wrote  in March, Washington State auctioned off its state liquor stores in an online auction that   opened March 6, 2012 and closed Ap...
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Thursday, September 27, 2012

New Orleans School Choice: bringing one application process to all schools

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Progress is being made:  New Orleans school officials push holdout charters to join single-application process "After years of compla...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Unravelling in college football

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There are some big eighth graders out there. LSU Gives Scholarship Offer To 8th Grader "It's a scene that plays out on college c...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Law review submissions: too cheap?

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It has always been the custom to submit papers to multiple law reviews, but the new ExpressO system makes it so easy that some journals are ...
Monday, September 24, 2012

Allocating deceased donor kidneys for transplant: problems, some proposed changes, and how can we get more donors?

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Two recent NY Times stories discuss the allocation of deceased donor kidneys: In Discarding of Kidneys, System Reveals Its Flaws Kidney ...
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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Istanbul Bilgi University, and its rector

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I've written before about the culture of universities and the obstacles that face new ones. The 2012 game theory world congress was hos...
Saturday, September 22, 2012

Older kidneys work fine (thank you for asking:)

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Older Kidneys Work Fine for Transplants "Using data from more than 50,000 living donor transplants from 1998 through 2003, research...
Friday, September 21, 2012

Same sex marriage in the different states of the European Union

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In Europe as in the U.S. different states have different laws about same sex marriages, and some states don't recognize the same sex mar...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

Forecasting school enrollment in Los Angeles

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LA is looking ahead:  Nation’s Second-Largest District Builds Enrollment Forecasting Platform "Problem Los Angeles (Calif.) Unified ...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

The market for "zero day" software vulnerabilities

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What can you do if you discover a brand new, never exploited ("zero day") vulnerability in a ubiquitous piece of software? Forbes ...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Cramton on the Medicare auction

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Market design can be frustrating: Peter reports from the front line. Medicare auction gets failing grade at Congressional hearing

Market design course at Stanford (Econ 285, Autumn 2012)

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Muriel Niederle and I will be teaching an introduction to market design this quarter (the first quarter of a three quarter graduate sequence...
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