Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Medical marijuana in Israel

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YNet has the story: Medical marijuana takes off in Israel "Even though Israel enforces a strict ban on recreational use of marijuana...
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

FCC incentive auction

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USA Today covers the earliest stage of the FCC's incentive auction: F CC's complex incentive auction could net more than $30 billi...
Monday, April 4, 2016

Cherry blossom season in Tokyo

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The cherry blossoms are out in force in Tokyo
Sunday, April 3, 2016

Who Gets What and Why in Japanese―マッチメイキングとマーケットデザインの新しい経済学 単行本 –

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The Japanese translation has come out, and I will be travelling to Japan this week to talk about market design. (Professor Yosuke Yasud...
Saturday, April 2, 2016

Presidential proclamation on organ donation

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Presidential Proclamation -- National Donate Life Month, 2016 "My Administration has striven to support donors and recipients and t...

Alex Nichifor is celebrated in Romania

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Here's an article in Business Magazin (in Romanian) celebrating Alex Nichifor: Profesorul român de la Stanford care a colaborat cu ...
Friday, April 1, 2016

Tomorrow at Stanford Hillel

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I'll join Ken Arrow tomorrow, to help celebrate Stanford Hillel's 50th anniversary: Community Open House: Something for Everyone...

Headlines that could have been published on April 1

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You can't make this stuff up... College Will No Longer Ask Students to Examine One Another's Vaginas  Woman discovers ...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Common enrollment system launches in Detroit, primarily for charter schools

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A school choice system in Detroit is starting with charter schools. The Detroit Free Press has the story: Common enrollment system launch...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

A proposal to give refugees legally recognized financial claims against the countries that persecuted them, by Joseph Bloger and Mitu Gulati

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When I recently visited Duke Law School I had the pleasure of talking with Joseph Blocher and Mitu Gulati about their very innovative thoug...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Whither Game Theory? by Fudenberg and Levine (we need to learn more about learning)

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Whither Game Theory? Drew Fudenberg David K. Levine, January 31, 2016 Abstract: We examine the state of game theory. Many important ques...
Monday, March 28, 2016

Who Gets What and Why? at Duke Law School (video: one hour including Q&A)

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Here's a video of one of the talks I gave at Duke Law School last Wednesday, sponsored by The Duke Project on Law and Markets. And ...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

Surprising consequences of minimum tick size in financial markets

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Two papers on minimum tick sizes as elements of market design: What Drives Price Dispersion and Market Fragmentation across U.S. Stock E...
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Saturday, March 26, 2016

A trading firm promises to restrain itself from early exploding offers

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Self restraint doesn't always do the trick, but is worth a try: here's a post from the Jane Street blog. Unraveling of the tec...
Friday, March 25, 2016

Who Gets What and Why at the European School for Management and Technology in Berlin--video

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Here's a video of a public lecture followed by a discussion (about half an hour each) about my book Who Gets What and Why , which just ...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

Compensation for donors: crowding in and crowding out, in the Washington Post

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The Washington Post reports a recent study  by Dr Tom Peters surveying Americans on their willingness to donate, and how this would be effe...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Who Gets What and Why at Duke Law School:

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It looks like Duke Law School is seriously addressing the incentives of lecture-goers to arrive on time: lunch is served on a first come fi...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Steine lecture at Vanderbilt

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I'll be in Nashville today, speaking at Vanderbilt , in their Steine Lecture series. Nobel Prize-winning economist will deliver Stei...
Monday, March 21, 2016

Transplanting kidneys that are infected with hepatitis C (to uninfected patients) or HIV (to already infected patients) to ease the organ shortage

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Two stories, one on Hep C kidneys to uninfected patients, another on HIV kidneys to patients already infected with HIV. Here's the fi...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

Rabbi (and kidney donor)i Shmuly Yanklowitz on Judaism and organ donation (video)

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Rabbi (and kidney donor) Shmuly Yanklowitz speaks about organ donation, drawing on Jewish sources, in this 14 minute video: HT: Max ...