Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Ramesh Johari's class on Platform and Marketplace Design, winter 2015

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Here's a class by Ramesh Johari , well worth considering in the Winter quarter at Stanford: MS&E 336: Platform and Marketplace D...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Updates on school choice

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Some recent articles look at school choice in several American cities, including some (Denver, New Orleans, DC) where IIPSC has helped ou...
Monday, December 8, 2014

Jean Tirole's Nobel lecture

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Jean Tirole - Prize Lecture Market Failures and Public Policy

New York City high school choice: market design in the NY Times

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The NY Times has a nice article on the high school application process, and how it arose, with particular attention to the work that Atila ...
Sunday, December 7, 2014

Students selling seats in popular courses

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An Unusual Honor-Code Violation: Students Selling Seats in Popular Courses (ungated access here:  http://www.aacrao.org/resources/resourc...
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Saturday, December 6, 2014

Housing markets through thick and thin (and back again)

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A paper in the December AER discusses seasonality in the housing market: when the market is thick, better match quality raises prices... ...
Friday, December 5, 2014

I am The Fixer in the IMF's Finance and Development magazine

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The Fixer , it turns out, is the title of a profile of me, based on an interview, and on conversations with some of my old and not so old c...
Thursday, December 4, 2014

Repugnant transactions: gradual or radical change?

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Policy makers and advocates who wish to relax a ban on some presently repugnant transactions may not always be glad to have the support of ...
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Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Compensation for kidney donors? Background, and Sally Satel's proposal

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From the Washington Post, a post that frames the current debate about whether the legal ban on compensating organ donors should be revisite...
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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Kidney sales proposal in 1983, and the origin of the 1984 National Organ Transplant Act (history)

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Dr. David Cohen  at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center Renal and Pancreatic Transplant Program  recently ...
Monday, December 1, 2014

Experiments as repugnant transactions (if subjects are paid)

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Here's a paper that reports a survey of IRB members on whether payments to experimental subjects are coercive. (The focus was on medica...
Sunday, November 30, 2014

Simons Institute at Berkeley: semester on Economics and Computation

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Noam Nisan writes Simons Semester on Economics and Computation November 21, 2014 by  Noam Nisan The  Simons institute at Berkeley...
Saturday, November 29, 2014

Kidney exchange in Australia passes the 100 transplant mark

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"In September the Paired Kidney Exchange Program reached the milestone of 100 transplants." Here's the story, focused on a ...
Friday, November 28, 2014

Bride price and the education of brides

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Here's a new paper that casts bride price in a somewhat different light, with data from Indonesia and Zambia suggesting that girls who ...
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Thursday, November 27, 2014

Job market for new Ph.d. economists

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A recent NBER working paper discusses the job market for economists: IS IT ALL WORTH IT? THE EXPERIENCES OF NEW PHDS ON THE JOB MARKET,  ...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Jacob Lavee on preventing transplant tourism, in the birthplace of transplantation

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Jacob Lavee , about whom I've written numerous posts , was just in Boston as the 8th Annual Joseph E. Murray Visiting Professor in Tran...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

A new market for blog posts?

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Kim Krawiec is on top of the taboo trades game, and has some new ones to suggest: I particularly like the idea that if you have some fact t...
Monday, November 24, 2014

Stanford Engineering Hero Lecture: Ken Arrow on his intellectual history and the history of Operations Research (video)

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I've had occasion to think about Operations Research recently, and it's relationships with Economics.  Here's Ken Arrow recalli...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

on my reading list (but not yet read)--recent papers on school choice, resident matching, and kidney exchange

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Inefficient School Choice in a Long-Run Urban Equilibrium Ulrich Kamecke  Humboldt University of Berlin - Faculty of Economics Sep...
Saturday, November 22, 2014

Mini course in market design: video of the short course (4 lectures) I gave in Brazil

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Here is the link to lecture 1 of 4, with links to the other three lectures as well. IWGTS 2014 - Mini-course: Market Design These le...