Thursday, February 18, 2016

Jean Tirole on the morality of markets: « La Moralité et le marché »

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Jean Tirole, on the morality of markets: La Moralité et le marché -- Pour une éthique du libéralisme  (update: the pdf file has been remov...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Bob Wilson wins the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics

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T he BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance and Management has been granted in this eighth edition to Robert B....
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Ph.D. admissions committees: a look under the hood at the graduate school matching market

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Inside Higher Ed reviews "Inside Graduate Admissions." Here are the first few paragraphs of their review (and a link to the whole...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Real estate symposium

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I participate today in a conference on an unusual (for me) subject: SPIRE AND THE REAL PROPERTY LAW SECTION HOST THE FIFTH ANNUAL REAL...
Monday, February 15, 2016

Dynamic matching when what you get now may determine your future priorities

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Dynamic Matching Markets and the Deferred Acceptance Mechanism John Kennes  ( jkennes@econ.au.dk ),  Daniel Monde  and  Norovsambuu Tume...
Sunday, February 14, 2016

How can you tell you're an economist? Valentine's day economics

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How can you tell you're an economist?  Maybe if Valentine's Day makes you think of dating sites as congested matching markets.  Her...

A Valentine's day salute to Gale and Shapley and the deferred acceptance algorithm

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The University of California celebrates David Gale and Lloyd Shapley with an article appropriate to Valentine's Day: How a matchmakin...
Saturday, February 13, 2016

Twitter followers for sale

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I'm too verbose to be tempted by twitter, but if you need some twitter followers, one of the commenters on my blog turns out to sell th...
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Friday, February 12, 2016

Federico Echenique and Juan Pereyra on unraveling of matching markets

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  Strategic complementarities and unravelingin matching markets  by Federico Echenique  and  Juan Sebastián Pereyra, Theoretical Economics...
Thursday, February 11, 2016

Using deceased donor kidneys to start some kidney exchange chains

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It would save some lives... here's a link to the abstract of a forthcoming paper (more like an editorial, really). Personal Viewp...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Public comments at the SEC about IEX's exchange application: a seminar on the politics of market design

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There's an exciting (if confusing) practical seminar on market design going on on the SEC's webpage these days, where they are post...
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Military draft registration, now for women as well as men?

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The recent discussions of draft registration for women have invited us to recall the discussions about conscription versus a volunteer army...
Monday, February 8, 2016

A WSJ reporter prepares for Valentines Day by interviewing economists about dating sites

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Here's a WSJ interview that mentions, among other things, Soo Lee and Muriel Niederle's experiment with virtual roses: How Econom...
Sunday, February 7, 2016

Mishaps while flying transplant organs

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This news story stopped with the plane, and doesn't say what happened to the organ... No one hurt when jet scheduled to pick up donor ...

Repugnance for money: The Other Paris, by Luc Sante

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Paris is romanticized as the opposite of NY, and poverty as freedom from money, in this review in The Guardian of The Other Paris by Luc S...
Saturday, February 6, 2016

Repugnant transactions in zoos

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The NY Times ran the following story a little while ago: Zoo’s Public Dissection of Lion Makes Denmark Again a Target of Outrage "O...
Friday, February 5, 2016

The high end marijuana market in New York City

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Jacob Leshno draws my attention to this article on how the legalization of marijuana in some U.S. locations (like Colorado, where I am this...
Thursday, February 4, 2016

W.P. Carey Lecture: Who Gets What and Why at Colorado College today

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W.P. Carey Lecture :Who Gets What and Why  with Nobel Laureate in Economics Alvin Roth Presented by  Colorado College at  Cornerst...
Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Repugnant transaction watch: IIT pupil tries to sell kidney to repay loan, but no takers for 'dalit organ'

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Here's a story that is disturbing on several levels:  IIT pupil tries to sell kidney to repay loan, but no takers for 'dalit organ...
Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Barcelona GSE summerforum and BESLAB workshop on Theoretical and Experimental Macroeconomics in Universitat Pompeu Fabra. June 16-17, 2016.

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Rosemarie Nagel sends the following announcment: Conference : Barcelona GSE summerforum and BESLAB workshop  on Theoretical and Experim...