Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Non-directed kidney donors are increasing (and are increasingly important)

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Here's a story on the increasing number of non-directed kidney donors:  Amid organ shortage, altruistic kidney donations increase but br...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Some memories of Cy Derman

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Annals of Operations Research has published online a paper on the life and work of Cyrus Derman, by Katehakis, Olkin and Ross. Original...
Monday, July 29, 2013

2013 National Donor Designation Report Card Released

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Donate Life America releases their annual report on organ donor registration. Here's their summary news release , and a link to the full...
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Sunday, July 28, 2013

First Kidney Exchange in Portugal:

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Ana Viana writes from Portugal about the first kidney exchange there, which she and other Operations Researchers helped bring about with so...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

Dallas celebrates Gary Bolton

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...where they are justly proud of him : Early Interest in Economics Inspired Prof’s Career and Research Jul. 18, 2013 Dr. Gary ...
Friday, July 26, 2013

School choice in New Orleans

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The one-application system in New Orleans is suffering from some growing pains, as it faces the demands of charter schools and others. One d...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

Yemeni girl's speech against child marriage goes viral

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Al Jazeera has the story, and the moving video, with an 11 year old girl speaking out against child marriage:  Yemeni girl's speech agai...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

The market for integers: Edelman and Schwarz on IP addresses

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Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses Benjamin Edelman , Harvard Business School and Michael Schwarz, Google June 9, 2013...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Kidney exchange chain in India

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Kidney exchange makes some progress in India: the story is here . HT: Seema Arora
Monday, July 22, 2013

Ron Paul on paying organ donors

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Ron Paul: End government control of organ transplants and compensate donors "In his  weekly Texas Straight Talk column  — which has c...
Sunday, July 21, 2013

SITE workship on Dynamic Games, Contracts and Markets, July 29-31 2013

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The announcement is here : Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics Summer 2013 Workshop Segment 4:  Dynamic Games, Contracts...
Saturday, July 20, 2013

Monty Python's take on organ donation

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Not for the faint of heart, here is Monty Python's take on becoming registered as a deceased donor... And here (for the humor impair...
Friday, July 19, 2013

Medicare's 3 year limit on post-transplant immunosuppressive drugs

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A lot has been written about this, here's yet another story that puts a personal edge on a systematic problem and a big waste of taxpaye...
Thursday, July 18, 2013

Market design talk at Sun Yat Sen University in Guangzhou

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Here's an ex-post account , from which the picture below is taken. (I earlier posted a link to a pre-talk account.) One of the people I...

Unraveling in the market for chefs?

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It turns out that good restaurants need good cooks, and they are hard to find and keep in the growing market for fancy restaurants:  Talent ...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Prize in Game Theory and Computer Science to Edelman, Ostrovsky and Schwarz, and Varian

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Here's the prize announcement : Prize in Game Theory and Computer Science of the Game Theory Society in Honour of Ehud Kalai, endow...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Egg donation in Israel at a new, higher price

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Egg donors to be compensated with NIS 19,000 "The Knesset's Labor, Welfare and Health Committee approved raising compensation su...
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Monday, July 15, 2013

Budish, Cramton and Shim on The High-Frequency Trading Arms Race

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Presently most stock markets, such as the New York Stock Exchange, and most futures markets, such as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, use a ...
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Sunday, July 14, 2013

Future of Game Theory: Stony Brook roundtable

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This past week I had the opportunity to listen to a discussion of "The Present and Future of Game Theory". The highlight was a set...
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Saturday, July 13, 2013

Market design conference at Lund, July 25-27

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Here is the conference website:  Conference on Economic Design 2013 (25-27 July) Beforehand, The Arne Ryde Foundation will organize a two-...