Tuesday, January 14, 2014

The Federal Law Clerk Hiring Plan is officially over

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Here is the official announcement, dated January 13, 2014: To: All United States Judges From: Judge John D. Bates RE: LAW CLERK HIRING...
Monday, January 13, 2014

An economist's advice on online dating by Stanford's Paul Oyer

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In a WSJ column and in a new book, Paul Oyer offers his perspective on economics and online dating, based on his personal experience. In th...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

Women protest Saudi driving ban, in small numbers

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The WSJ has the story:  Women Accelerate Challenge to Saudi Driving Ban " Three Saudi women drove cars on Saturday in an ongoing cha...
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Saturday, January 11, 2014

Kidney exchange at University of Alabama at Birmingham

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UAB Launches Paired Exchange and Incompatible Kidney Transplant Program
Friday, January 10, 2014

Dale Mortensen, 1939-2014

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Dale Mortensen, Nobelist for Labor Market Work, Dies at 74 Here's the short bio from his website : Dale T. Mortensen  is the ...

Learning and adaptation in the social sciences: NAS Sackler conference, January 10-11

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Ido Erev and I will be presenting a paper  on learning and choice behavior at one of the Sackler Colloquia run by the National Academy of ...
Thursday, January 9, 2014

Black markets and black market prices

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A website call Havocscope (subtitle: Global Black Market Information) compiles information from news stories and other public sources abou...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Video of market design talk at USF

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Not long ago I gave a  talk at the University of San Francisco . My host was Professor  Ludwig Chincarini , and he has posted this  video  ...
Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Celebrating experimental economics (and being celebrated for it) at the University of Amsterdam, January 8

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The University of Amsterdam (UvA) is the home of one of Europe's important centers of experimental economics at Creed : On January...
Monday, January 6, 2014

D47. Market Design is now officially a field of study

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I returned last night from Philadelphia where the American Economic Association’s annual meeting was held. While I was there, my Pittsburg...
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Sunday, January 5, 2014

Market design today in Philadelphia

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Two sessions I'll be attending at today's AEA meetings... Jan 05, 2014 8:00 am , Pennsylvania Convention Center, 204-C   Americ...
Saturday, January 4, 2014

Paul Milgrom and Roger Myerson on matching and market design at lunch today

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I gather that Lloyd Shapley won't be making the trip to Philadelphia, so I'll be standing in for the two of us. Jan 04, 2014 12:3...
Friday, January 3, 2014

Market design experiments today in Philadelphia

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Jan 03, 2014 10:15 am , Philadelphia Marriott, Meeting Room 307   Economic Science Association Market Design Experiments   (C9) Presi...
Thursday, January 2, 2014

Markets for blood, milk, and sperm (new book)

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Here's the announcement of a forthcoming book from Harvard University Press (by Professor Kara Swanson, whose earlier papers include Th...
Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Cornes and Neto celebrate Gale and Shapley, and the practical value of good theory

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Here's a paper that points out that there's nothing more practical--even for policy--than good theory, and that it might be hard to...
Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Iguassu falls, by night and day

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A recent trip to the Iguassu falls, where the full moon made a lunar rainbow in the permanent mist around the falls, was a bookend to a rem...
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Monday, December 30, 2013

Exeter Prize: Congratulations to Dan Friedman and Ryan Oprea

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Congrats to Dan Friedman and Ryan Oprea , for the news that came this morning about their 2012 AER paper A continuous dilemma . Here's...

Two countries divided by a common language: translating English into American

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The article (by Tim Parks)  Learning to Speak American , about copyediting an English writer's English for an American audience, has so...
Sunday, December 29, 2013

Alternatives to the NBA draft?

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Scott Cunningham points me to this proposal to change the way professional basketball teams acquire new players. The present system rewards...
Saturday, December 28, 2013

Repugnance as a constraint on markets in Spanish

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La repugnancia como limitación de los mercados  (a translation of my 2007 JEP article) Dendra Médica. Revista de Humanidades 2013; 12(1):...