Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Social Choice in Boston and Pittsburgh, June 18-21

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The 12 th  Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare June 18-21, 2014 at Boston College View the Conference P...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Hiring Mike Malone (internal candidates only)

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The requirement to advertise certain positions can lead to funny situations when there is already an incumbent. Santa Clara University made...
Monday, June 16, 2014

The WSJ notes that Gordon and Mokyr disagree about the prospects for growth

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Economists Debate: Has All the Important Stuff Already Been Invented? Northwestern University Colleagues Have Opposing Views of 21st Centur...
Sunday, June 15, 2014

Antitrust, repugnance and expert testimony in NCAA case

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My colleague Roger Noll gets top billing in this story about the courtroom plays being executed in a trial that touches on whether paying c...
Saturday, June 14, 2014

Futbola eta Ekonomia by Ignacio Palacios-Huerta in the NY Times

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Would  fútbol by any other name be as interesting? * It is to the economist Ignacio Palacios-Huerta, who has a column in the NY Times mot...
Friday, June 13, 2014

Repugnant transactions in Nazi memorabilia

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Jason Poulos writes: These two recent news items might interest you -- France's best-known association of Jewish groups, CRIF, h...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

Organ donations in Brazil: immortal fans

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How thousands of football fans are helping to save lives "A campaign by one of Brazil's biggest football clubs to encourage fans...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Video of my Sackler lecture on learning, with Ido Erev

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The title of the paper that this will become is "Maximization, Learning and Economic Behavior." https://www.youtube.com/wa...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Muriel Niederle on gender and the job market

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" The Economics Department (AE1) of Maastricht University hosted the 7th   Maastricht Behavioral and Experimental Economics Symposium ...
Monday, June 9, 2014

Qatar, and the role of trusted intermediaries

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Trusted intermediaries receive some attention in game theory and market design, since there are things that can be accomplished with the ai...
Sunday, June 8, 2014

NBER Market Design conference at Stanford, June 8-9, 2014

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Here's the program : NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC. Market Design Working Group Meeting Susan  Athey  and  Par...
Saturday, June 7, 2014

Kidney exchange in France

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Here (with the aid of Google Translate) is the announcement from November 2013:   Le don croisé de reins va démarrer en 2014   ( Paired k...
Friday, June 6, 2014

Organ transplantation at Lund...and a new hat

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I'm returning home from Lund today, where I learned about transplantation, lectured on market design and kidney exchange, and received ...
Thursday, June 5, 2014

Making a market for "dark Wi-Fi"

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Just as AirBnb makes a market for underused bedrooms, and Lyft  makes a market for underused passenger seats in cars, BandwidthX seeks to ...
Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Lost in Transplantation: memoir of an organ donor

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There's a new book, Lost in Transplantation , by Eldonna Edwards, the kidney donor who eventually started a nondirected donor chain, an...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014

School choice and the politics of charter and district schools

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School choice involves bridging a lot of political positions: State Superintendent of Education John White says a civil rights complaint ...
Monday, June 2, 2014

Incentives and organ donation

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Dan Salomon, the president of the American Society of Transplantation , posted this last year on his presidential blog. Encouraging organ...
Sunday, June 1, 2014

Black markets for kidney transplants

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miscellaneous black market links I've been collecting, of different vintages: Nancy Scheper-Hughes in the New Internationalist magazi...
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Saturday, May 31, 2014

The NY Times on market approaches to reducing greenhouse gases

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This graphic is from  A Price Tag on Carbon as a Climate Rescue Plan , May 30. How a Carbon Market Works Governments around the world...
Friday, May 30, 2014

AER Papers and Proceedings: 2 sections on market design

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In January I blogged about these two sessions at the AEA meeting, and now they are published, except for the paper by Milgrom and Segal, w...