Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Congressional briefing on the role of economic research in health policy: April 12

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I will participate in this event remotely, but if you are in Washington you can come and enjoy it in person...  Invitation: 4/12 Luncheon/...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Columbia Engineering (my alma mater) interview

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Here's the interview, called The ultimate matchmaker .
Monday, April 8, 2013

High school matching in New York City

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Two stories caught my eye about the results of the recent high school match in New York City. The first reminded me of the recent paper on...
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Sunday, April 7, 2013

Marketing gurus: how would you advertise the need for organ donors?

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You can see how the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services does it at  http://organdonor.gov/index.html
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Saturday, April 6, 2013

How American transplant policy is made: some policies put out for public comment

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A view of the OPTN policy-making process for organ transplants can be glimpsed by looking at some of the many recent proposals put out for p...
Friday, April 5, 2013

Job markets in Korea

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I had an interesting discussion yesterday at the Korean Finance Ministry about the interconnectedness of job markets and child care... ...
Thursday, April 4, 2013

Tub thumping about market design in Seoul

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Soo Lee and I discuss market design in Seoul: this photo is from this newspaper account (in Korean). Here's another photo,(apparent...
Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Stanford's endowment: I benefit directly from parts of it

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An unusual thing about American universities is that they are largely financed by philanthropy. The oldest universities tend to have very b...
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Global Financial Conference in Seoul

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Soohyung Lee and I will discuss market design  at the 2013 Seoul Global Financial Conference , April 2-3.
Monday, April 1, 2013

Organs and executed prisoners: Jay Lavee goes to Taiwan

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Jay Lavee , the Israeli transplant surgeon behind some of Israel's new legislation (and who I met in person for the first time at Duke),...
Sunday, March 31, 2013

Organs and Inducements at Duke

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I was talked into going to what turned out to be a wonderful conference.  The modal participant was a law professor, but here's a photo ...
Saturday, March 30, 2013

Video of my recent talk at the SIEPR economic summit

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Here I was : speaking on Friday March 15, 2013.
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Friday, March 29, 2013

"Horse meat is the Tatar's Viagra"

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While horse meat may be repugnant in some places, the controversy over horse meat in Russia is over how to prepare it:  Appreciation of the ...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

Furniture in Foshan

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When I spoke in Foshan China, I got an opportunity to see one of the big furniture markets in that city, this one run by the Louvre Group : ...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Beijing East Linden Co.

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While in Beijing I visited the East Linden Company , which is making a market for intellectual property by producing a high-tech searchable ...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

My names in Chinese transliteration

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Irwin Rose, Irvine Ross, and Elvin Ross all appear in the Google Translate version of this story  ( 2012诺奖得主：中国经济需要市场设计    2012 Nobel laure...
Monday, March 25, 2013

Stanford's student senate rejects an anti-Israel divestment resolution

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The Stanford Daily has the story of the contentious and lengthy debate: Undergraduate Senate votes against divestmentbill The resolution f...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

Matching and Market Design: Bob Wilson and Mary Kline

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Matching is important, and I returned from a trip to China just in time to attend the wedding of the Dean of Design, my advisor Bob Wilson, ...
Saturday, March 23, 2013

Call for papers: May 4 Bay Area Behavioral and Experimental Economics Workshop

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Call for Papers Bay Area Behavioral and Experimental Economics Workshop Saturday May 4, 2013, University of San Francisco The Bay ...
Friday, March 22, 2013

Exchanges for digital goods

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The NY Times has the story:  Imagining a Swap Meet for E-Books and Music "In late January, Amazon received a patent to set up an exc...
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