Saturday, July 6, 2013

Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply

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Here's a new old paper (written quite a while ago , but recently published...): Niederle, Muriel, Alvin E. Roth and M. Utku Unver, “...
Friday, July 5, 2013

Conference on game theory in honor of Marilda Sotomayor: July 2014

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Here's the announcement: INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON GAME THEORY AND ECONOMIC APPLICATIONS OF THE GAME THEORY SOCIETY, celebrating the ...

Different views of organ donation in China

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When I visited the Ministry of Health in Beijing last Friday, their estimate was that 60% of the organs used for transplant still come from ...
Thursday, July 4, 2013

July 4 and July 1: U.S. and Hong Kong remember British rule

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Happy Independence Day to all my fellow Americans. We remember today that we aren't British, and how that came to pass. I was just in ...
Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Lecture in Guangzhou: market design, and possible opportunities in China

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Here's the announcement of the talk I gave at Sun Yat Sen University, sponsored by the Business school, in Guangzhou. The larger them...
Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Deceased organ donation in China, and Hong Kong

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I just arrived in Hong Kong (via a fast train from Guangzhou). On Friday I spoke in Beijing about organ donation and allocation with offic...
Monday, July 1, 2013

Market design and computer assisted markets: video of my talk at the Simons Institute at Berkeley

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Market Design and Computer-Assisted Markets: An Economist's Perspective Here is the video of a talk I gave at Berkeley. (I can...
Sunday, June 30, 2013

Open software as a way to find programmers

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The NY Times has an article that focuses on the company Gild  and how they go headhunting among the reputational rankings on coder sites: Ho...
Saturday, June 29, 2013

Algorithmics Of Matching Under Preferences by David Manlove

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A new book on matching, from a computer science perspective: Algorithmics Of Matching Under Preferences Manlove, D.  (2013)  Alg...
Friday, June 28, 2013

Chinese auctions of auto registrations, and the market for cars in China

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To keep down congestion in big cities, Chinese authorities limit who can drive, either by lottery or by auction.  Here's a story suggest...
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Thursday, June 27, 2013

Another long kidney chain: 56 people, 28 transplants

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Non-simultaneous chains started by non-directed donors have assumed a large role in American kidney exchange for a number of reasons (on whi...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Deceased organ donation by xkcd

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http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/lego.png
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UNOS approves new deceased donor allocation rules

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OPTN/UNOS Board approves significant revisions to deceased donor kidney allocation policy Richmond, Va. - The OPTN/UNOS Board of Director...
Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Summer School on Matching Problems, Markets, and Mechanisms: going on now in Budapest

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Summer School on Matching Problems, Markets, and Mechanisms: (And don't miss the link to ruin pubs  at the bottom...) the first s...

Courts and assisted suicide in Britain

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Here is a judicial philosophy that seems hard to sympathize with:  Lord Chief Justice won't allow 'personal sympathy' to sway de...
Monday, June 24, 2013

More unraveling in the private equity labor market

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The NY Times is on the story:  A Rush to Recruit Young Analysts, Only Months on the Job "For Wall Street’s top young analysts, landin...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

"דוקטור לשם כבוד" honorary doctorate at the Technion

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When I was in Haifa to attend the conference in memory of Uri Rothblum (where I gave this talk ), I was reminded that I used to visit oft...
Saturday, June 22, 2013

Matching with Couples - Video of my lecture at the Rothblum conference at the Technion

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Here's the talk I gave at the memorial conference for Uri Rothblum at the Technion: Matching with Couples  (55 minutes)
Friday, June 21, 2013

Witchcraft as a repugnant transaction in Indonesia?

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Al Jazeera reports on efforts to ban witchcraft in Indonesia:  Indonesia considers ban on witchcraft "People accused of practising bl...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

Kidney exchange about to begin in France?

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The story (in French) is here: Dons croisés d'organe : c'est maintenant (ou presque) !  Here's Google translate: "In Fr...