Thursday, June 13, 2013

Is the set of stable matchings generically small? Ashlagi, Kanoria and Leshno on large random marriage markets

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Suppose you have a matching market with two kinds of players, say each player of one kind owns a single left shoe and the other kind each o...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Who Gets What: video of a lecture I gave at Stanford GSB

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One hour of market design (45 minutes of lecture, 15 of very good questions and my attempts to answer them...) "Published on  M...
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Matching in Paris: conference this week

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Workshop on “ Advances in Mechanism Design ”, June 11–12, 2013 Paris School of Economics, “Grande Salle”, 48 Boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris...

Matching news from Peter Biro: a conference volume, a summer school at the end of the month and a workshop in October

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Peter Biro writes: The proceedings of the Japanese-Hungarian Symposium is now available online: http://www.cs.bme.hu/~jh2013/nagy.pdf ...
Monday, June 10, 2013

Operations Research Conference in Memory of Professor Uriel G. Rothblum (June 11, 2013)

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I am in Israel to participate in a conference honoring my old friend  Uri Rothblum . The instructions to the presenters were to try to prese...

Technion honorary doctorate ceremony

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The Technion will broadcast its honorary doctorate ceremony here:  Honorary Doctors Ceremony - June 10, 2013 – 8:00 pm, 1:00 pm EDT, USA ...
Sunday, June 9, 2013

Honorary 7th dan black belt in JKA Shotokan karate, presented by Sensei Masataka Mori

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When I was an undergraduate at Columbia University, from the Fall of 1968 through the summer of 1971, I spent a lot of time practicing Sho...
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Saturday, June 8, 2013

Information about live kidney donors, for those who need them

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The Living Kidney Donors Network is organizing two webinars: LKDN is Offering two Kidney Kampaign Webinars: Click here to register for...
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Friday, June 7, 2013

Notes on teachers and students from the rabbinical literature

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As I get older I appreciate more the bonds between teachers and students. These aren't as recognized in modern literature as are other ...
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Thursday, June 6, 2013

Kidney exchange between Jewish and Arab families in Israel

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Kidney exchange erases boundaries, here's the story from Haaretz (in Hebrew, with Google translate:) דו קיום: ערבייה תרמה כליה ליהודי...
Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Conference in Memory of Jean Francois Mertens, Jerusalem, June 6,7, and 9.

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Conference in Memory of Jean Francois Mertens, Jerusalem, June 6,7, and 9. Thursday, June 6 09:00 – 09:30 Welcome 09:30 – 10:15 Robert J...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Jerusalem School in Economic Theory: Decision Making: June 10-19 2013

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The 24th Jerusalem School in Economic Theory Decision Making Lecturers Maya Bar-Hillel Hebrew University Itzhak Gilboa Tel ...
Monday, June 3, 2013

2013 Results and Data Book from NRMP’s Main Residency Match

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Here's the press release:  2013 Results and Data Book from NRMP’s Main Residency Match , and here's the data book for the 2013 Match...
Sunday, June 2, 2013

Breadwinner wives

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In his NY Times column , Dick Thaler writes about the " interesting  new paper  by Marianne Bertrand, Emir Kamenica and Jessica Pan, th...
Saturday, June 1, 2013

Matt Jackson on market design

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Matching, Auctions, and Market Design Matthew O. Jackson  Stanford University - Department of Economics; Santa Fe Institute; Canadia...
Friday, May 31, 2013

Experimental Economics and Market Design in Zurich: ESA meetings July 11-14, 2013

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The international meeting of the Economic Science Association will be in Zurich. ( Jacob Goeree will become the president of ESA at that t...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Wharton's new Course Match for MBA students to choose their classes: market design in action

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Eric Budish , Judd Kessler and Abe Othman  (all veterans of my market design class at Harvard) have been champions in helping Wharton adopt...
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Symposium on Visions of the Theory of Computing at the new Berkeley Simongs Institute

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Berkeley's new Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing announces the following symposium :   Symposia | Spring 2013 Visions...
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

And then there was France...

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but the opposition to same sex marriage in France hasn't vanished:  Huge anti-gay marriage protest march in Paris
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Monday, May 27, 2013

Forges, Haeringer and Iehle on matching

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Appariement: des modeles de Lloyd Shapley a la conception de march es d'Alvin Roth. Francoise Forges ,  Guillaume Haeringer,, Vince...