Friday, July 10, 2015

NBER workshop on Market Design: call for papers (October 23-24, in Cambridge)

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Mike Ostrovsky and Parag Pathak have announced the following call for papers: From:  Michael Ostrovsky and Parag Pathak To:  NBER Marke...

Maclean's review of Who Gets What and Why

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In Canada, Maclean's Magazine reviews my new book : Marketplaces are everywhere—even in online dating Book review: A look at what m...
Thursday, July 9, 2015

What do employers learn from interviews? Can they be replaced?

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The NY Times had a recent column covering the latest version of this old debate about the informativeness of interviews: ROBO RECRUITING-...
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Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Greece and Iran: two very different deadlines

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Deadlines are often an important element of economic design, from the design of auctions like eBay's, whose auctions have a well specif...
Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Podcast: Russ Roberts interviews me on EconTalk, about Who Gets What and Why

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  Matching Markets: EconTalk Episode with Alvin Roth--Hosted by Russ Roberts , a one-hour podcast/interview about my new book (which you ca...

Tim Harford reviews Who Gets What and Why in the FT

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Tim Harford's review in the Financial Times is here: In search of the perfect match His closing paragraph: "Economists such as ...
Monday, July 6, 2015

Straw in the wind: Google's Waze is piloting a ridesharing marketplace in Israel

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Ynet has the story: Google's Waze to start carpooling pilot program in Israel Mapping company launching RideWith, which will allow co...

New York City’s high school admissions process: an excerpt from Who Gets What and Why, in Chalkbeat

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Chalkbeat has a brief excerpt from my new book, Who Gets What and Why : Here's the link to what they have to say (or rather what they...
Sunday, July 5, 2015

The lectures of the The 26th Jerusalem School in Economic Theory "Dynamic Games" - 2015, are available on video

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Videos of the lectures are available here: The 26th Jerusalem School in Economic Theory "Dynamic Games" - 2015 The slides a...

Journal of Human Trafficking, Issue 1, 2015, on kidneys

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Issue 1 of the Journal of Human Trafficking contains this article by Alexander Capron and Frank Delmonico. I've highlighted in the abs...
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An interview in the Times of India, on Who Gets What and Why

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A matching market is like marriage — both sides have to choose each other: Alvin Roth Subodh Varma,TNN | Jul 5, 2015,
Saturday, July 4, 2015

Refugee resettlement as a matching problem

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There are a lot of displaced people in the world today, both outside their country of origin and within. The conflict in Syria is a big con...

Podcast interview about Who Gets What and Why

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Here's  Episode 196 – Alvin Roth from Smartpeoplepodcast.com. The interview starts at around one and a half minutes from the beginning...
Friday, July 3, 2015

Arrow Lecture in Jerusalem by Drew Fudenberg - Learning and Equilibrium in Games (video)

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Drew begins his general-audience lecture by saying "I can't imagine anyone I would rather give a talk for than Ken Arrow." He...
Thursday, July 2, 2015

The Amsterdam court rules on school choice

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Hessel Oosterbeek  sends the following update on the school choice court case  seeking to allow the exchange of school places that were all...
Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Video conversation about Who Gets What on Yahoo! Finance

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Below is a link to a Yahoo! Finance video interview (about 5 minutes), made when I was in NYC for the launch of   Who Gets What and Why  t...
Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Scott Kominers on market design (and a conference in August)

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INTERVIEWS Prof. Scott Duke Kominers: ‘There are many new areas of market design worth exploring’ BY   EDITORIAL STAFF ON  JUNE ...
Monday, June 29, 2015

Changes in repugnance over time

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Bloomberg news has some animated graphics showing the change over time in repugnance--as measured by laws at the state level--for six issue...
Sunday, June 28, 2015

Financial support for organ donors in New Zealand? A new bill proposed...

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New Zealand's parliament will debate a bill to increase the financial support offered to organ donors. Member’s Bill will boost fin...

Elias, Lacetera and Macis on the repugnance of paying for organs or prostitution: a survey experiment

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Markets and Morals: An Experimental Survey Study Julio J. Elias , Nicola Lacetera , Mario Macis PLOS One. Published: June 1, 2015DOI: 1...
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