Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Congratulations to Jean Tirole

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Hearty congratulations to Jean Tirole, who won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics. Or did he win The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic S...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Helping low income students with college applications

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David Leonhardt in the NY Times recently wrote about ‘A National Admissions Office’ for Low-Income Strivers , about a nonprofit company ca...
Monday, October 13, 2014

Market design at Stanford, Fall 2014 (current course materials)

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The URL of the Stanford course on market design that I'm teaching with Muriel Niederle this quarter is too long to fit into the heading...
Sunday, October 12, 2014

The brains of psychopaths (serial killers) and extraordinary altruists (nondirected kidney donors)

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First, the altruists, in PNAS: Neural and cognitive characteristics of extraordinary altruists Abigail A. Marsha,1, Sarah A. Stoycosa, Kr...
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Saturday, October 11, 2014

Australian discussion of market design

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For some reason, the public discussion of market design in business and government in Australia seems to hit a lot of the right notes, at l...
Friday, October 10, 2014

Who prefers centralized to decentralized matching?

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Here's a paper that looks at the question of centralized versus decentralized matching from an interesting angle:   College Admission...
Thursday, October 9, 2014

Medically assisted dying: debated in the NY Times

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Here's the debate on medically assisted dying   in Tuesdays NY Times: UPDATED  OCTOBER 7, 2014 12:53 PM Expanding the Right to D...
Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Incentives in multi-hospital kidney exchange

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Itai Ashlagi and I have a paper in the latest issue of Theoretical Economics: Free riding and participation in large scale, multi-hospital...
Tuesday, October 7, 2014

More transplant troubles in Germany

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Rosemarie Nagel points me to this article, in German: T ransplantationen: Prüfer decken Manipulationen am Berliner Herzzentrum auf Google...
Monday, October 6, 2014

Cooperating with the future, and renewable resources

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Here's a paper that I missed when it came out: Cooperating with the future Oliver P. Hauser , David G. Rand , Alexander Pe...
Sunday, October 5, 2014

More on eating horse meat (and saving horses)

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Eat ponies to save them - says charity "It maybe be controversial but an animal group is the latest to endorse the Princess Royal...
Saturday, October 4, 2014

The wholesale used car market

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My colleague Brad Larsen has an NBER paper that looks at the post-auction bargaining for used cars that didn't reach their reserve pri...
Friday, October 3, 2014

Combinatorial clock auctions

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My colleagues Jon Levin and Andy Skrzypacz have an NBER paper on combinatorial clock auctions of the kind proposed by Ausubel, Cramton an...
Thursday, October 2, 2014

Organ and blood donation from gay men

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Several repugnancies coincide in this sad story that actually involves a suicide apparently resulting from bullying. So, read the whole sto...
Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Helmet laws and organ donors

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Would it be repugnant to have a state helmet/donor law that said you are free to ride a motorcycle without wearing a helmet, but when you d...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Call for papers: special issue on Matching in honor of Marilda Sotomayor, in Journal of Dynamics and Games

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This call for papers arrived yesterday by email: Call for Papers Journal of Dynamics and Games is pleased to invite paper submiss...
Monday, September 29, 2014

New match for medical physics residency positions

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Since you ask ( Should there be a residency match for medical physics? ),  the answer is yes. Here's the announcement:  2015 Medical Ph...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

Repugnance of animal sales by zoos

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Luke Stein writes to me: "As the consummate collector of repugnant market stories, I thought you might be interested in a recent NP...
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Saturday, September 27, 2014

An interview in Spanish (with English translation), and one in German

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Jordi Benetiz of Capital Magazine interviewed me, and the interview appears on their website, in Spanish, here:  Alvin Roth, Nobel de Econo...
Friday, September 26, 2014

Illegal trade in protected species

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The NY Times ran a recent story on the crime lab in Ashland Oregon that handles cases related to the Convention on International Trade in E...