Monday, October 19, 2015

Stanford celebrates Itai Ashlagi

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Itai Ashlagi has joined the Management Science and Engineering Department at Stanford, and the Engineering School celebrates his arrival he...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

Christine Exley is an EconomicRockstar: on the Economics of Volunteering, Market Failure in the Homeless Dog Market and Wagaroo

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The Economic Rockstar podcast interviews   Christine Exley on the Economics of Volunteering, Market Failure in the Homeless Dog Market and ...

The magic of the market - Nobel Perspectives [Teaser--30 second video]

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UBS has commissioned a set of video interviews with Nobel laureates, and this 30 second "teaser" is apparently an indicator tha...

Incentives for organ donation: one brick at a time

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Right now there is an active discussion of providing incentives for organ donation (see yesterday's post ). But providing incentives is...
Saturday, October 17, 2015

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Government Compensation of Kidney Donors by Held, McCormick, Ojo, and Roberts

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Just out in the American Journal of Transplantation:  A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Government Compensation of Kidney Donors by Held, McCormic...
Friday, October 16, 2015

Climate negotiation design

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Axel Ockenfels writes: David MacKay, Peter Cramton, Steven Stoft and I published a comment on climate negotiation design today in Nature...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

Centennial Lecture at U of I College of Business: Rigor & Relevance

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I'm returning to Champaign Urbana, to help celebrate the centennial of the University of Illinois College of Business , where I started...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Guru Madhavan on economists and engineers

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Guru Madhavan has a new book,  Applied Minds: How Engineers Think . I liked it enough to write a blurb for the cover: “Guru Madhavan not ...
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

The black market for kidneys in South Asia

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It sounds like you can buy a kidney in India, and have it transplanted in Sri Lanka. But it isn't clear how large the market is compare...
Monday, October 12, 2015

He has new papers on school choice

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Yingua He that is, and coauthors Gabrielle Fack and Julien Grenet, and Antonio Miralles, Marek Pycia and Jianye Yan. You can find them a...
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Sunday, October 11, 2015

From Syria to Norway through Russia (by bicycle at the very end)

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It is hard to stymie refugees: the NY Times has the story of a Northern route from the middle east to the EU:  Bypassing the Risky Sea, Ref...
Saturday, October 10, 2015

Interview in Spanish on refugee resettlement as a matching problem

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Here's an interview on matching and refugee resettlment, in Spanish, in Estrategia newspaper in Chile Cuando Se Piensa en Refugiados D...
Friday, October 9, 2015

A matching market for used textbooks at Stanford

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Here's an attempt to disintermediate bookstores: Matchbook--The easiest way to buy and sell textbooks and course readers at Stanford ...
Thursday, October 8, 2015

Market Design as a Resource for Social Justice Research

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Sebastian Lotz  has a book review essay about Who Gets What - and Why in the September issue of the journal Social Justice Research , Engi...
Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Death with dignity law in California

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The NY Times has the story:  California Governor Signs Assisted Suicide Bill Into Law " California will become the fifth state to al...
Tuesday, October 6, 2015

American Economic Association election results, and a request for suggestions...

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The American Economic Association has announced the results of the recent election of new officers, who join the existing officers : 2016...
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Monday, October 5, 2015

how can David sue Goliath? A new marketplace for litigation funding

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Justice and the courts are in principle available to all, but litigation is expensive. So it may be hard for a plaintiff of limited means (...
Sunday, October 4, 2015

Janos Kornai on recent developments in Hungary and its political and economic institutions

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Janos Kornai, the eminent Hungarian economist, is not optimistic about recent developments there. Hungary's U-Turn Janos Kornai...
Saturday, October 3, 2015

Repugnance watch: sports gambling is largely illegal, while fantasy sports leagues are thriving

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Itai Fainmesser points me to this story in the NY Times, about how some things are illegal while similar things are legal--the legal disti...
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Who Gets What and Why: podcast at Ideas Books

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Craig Barfoot at IdeasBooks interviews me about Who Gets What and Why: our conversation ranges over repugnant transactions, kidney exchange...