Friday, November 13, 2015

Canice Prendergast on The Allocation of Food to Food Banks

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Market design has arrived at Chicago, here's a nice paper presented at the recent NBER market design conference.: The Allocation of F...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Interview about market design by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts

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An interview about market design by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts inevitably turned to the real estate market....
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

The singularity is not as near as you thought...

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Artificial intelligence may not be poised to take over the world just yet, or at least there will be a distribution of intelligence even am...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

A plea for kidney sales in the Atlantic, from an Orthodox rabbi

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Writing in the Atlantic, kidney donor Shmuly Yanklowitz argues that it would be easier for more people to do as he did if kidney donors cou...
Monday, November 9, 2015

Assisted suicide legislation is clarified in Germany (family members won't be prosecuted, but professional assistance is forbidden)

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Timo Mennle writes  from Zurich: "the German parliament ("Bundestag") passed a new law concerning assisted suicide. The ...
Sunday, November 8, 2015

More on (third party) litigation financing, including a medieval word, "champerty"

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In the NY Times: Should You Be Allowed to Invest in a Lawsuit? In recent years, investors have started buying shares in other people’s li...
Saturday, November 7, 2015

What a review of Who Gets What and Why would look like if my name were Andy...

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The Nation gives me a trendier first name in a review of Who Gets What and Why . The challenge of designing Asia-proof markets : "...
Friday, November 6, 2015

Economic Rockstar podcast: Alvin Roth on Match-Making, Repugnant Markets and Market Design

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You can find the interview here: Economic Rockstar Connecting Brilliant Minds in Economics and Finance 057: Alvin Roth on Match-Making, ...
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Thursday, November 5, 2015

Algorithmic economics at Microsoft Research NYC

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A rose by any other name (and a postdoc position at Microsoft Research NYC):  Algorithmic Economics  at Microsoft Research Here's the...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Are Uber drivers contractors or employees? It's in the courts

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The WSJ has the story:  Meet the Boston Lawyer Who’s Putting Uber on Trial "Ms. Liss-Riordan represents drivers who say the ride-serv...

Airbnb unbound: Prop F voted down in San Francisco

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Airbnb has escaped the narrow limits on rentals (75 days a year per property) that Proposition F sought to impose: SFGate has the story. P...
Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Proposition F: does Airbnb have a repugnance problem?

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The president won't get elected today, but it is an election day. And in San Francisco, the home of Airbnb, voters will vote on  City o...
Monday, November 2, 2015

Who Gets What and Why in Dutch

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Here is a book review in Dutch of the English version of Who Gets What and Why , by Burak Can . And here is his translation of his review ...
Sunday, November 1, 2015

Matching and market design at the INFORMS meeting in Philadelphia, Nov 1-4

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If I were at the INFORMS meeting in Philadelphia, I'd enjoy lots of sessions on matching and market design, by a variety of (increasing...