Monday, July 4, 2016

Civil servants study market design in Melbourne

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The Centre for Market Design in Melbourne is offering a course leading to a  Specialist Certificate in Economic Design : "Sixty int...
Sunday, July 3, 2016

The market for first year lawyers: some top salaries are moving to 180K

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After years at which top salaries for brand new lawyers at big firms were concentrated at $160,000, the magic number seems to be jumping to...
Saturday, July 2, 2016

Can a family that has decided to end life support decide a loved one should be a living donor?

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Transplantation is a field full of the kind of wrenching discussions that you might expect to find as hypotheticals in a philosophy class. ...
Friday, July 1, 2016

Who finds sales of genetically modified food repugnant? (Hint: they are disgusted)

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Here's a paper on a source of firm opposition to genetically modified food: Sydney E. Scott, Yoel Inbar, and Paul Rozin Evidence for...
Thursday, June 30, 2016

A matching market for polygamy: SecondWife.com

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Here is a (combinatorial?) site for plural marriage for Muslims:  SecondWife.com “then marry women of your choice, two or three, or four ...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Repugnance and the social acceptance of kidney exchange (in French)

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Here's an article, en français, that considers repugnance as central to the design (and public acceptance) of kidney exchange: Brisse...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Matching markets--a short instructional video from the Core Project

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Here's a short (4 minute) teaching video put together by the CORE Project ("Teaching Economics as if the last three decades had h...
Monday, June 27, 2016

Volatility in the political marketplace-Brexit

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Will the United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland break up, following the 52% to 48% vote for the UK to leave the Eu...
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Sunday, June 26, 2016

Airbnb and racial discrimination by hosts

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The NY Times follows the story:  Airbnb Vows to Fight Racism, but Its Users Can’t Sue to Prompt Fairness " SAN FRANCISCO — Brian Che...
Saturday, June 25, 2016

Repugnance watch: Nude photos as collateral for loans

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The Guardian has the story:  China's 'naked loans' force female students to bare all in return for more cash "Shady inte...
Friday, June 24, 2016

Repugnance watch: US ceases efforts to end global trade of polar bear parts

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The Guardian has the story:  US ceases efforts to end global trade of polar bear parts " The US government has quietly dropped its c...
Thursday, June 23, 2016

A skeptical view of the Iranian market for kidneys, from Shiraz

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Here's an article (gated) from a recent issue of Transplantation, describing how the transplant program in Shiraz is discouraging patie...
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

More on Chinese college admissions

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Two stories in the NY Times shed some light on the high stakes game of college admissions in China. China Tries to Redistribute Education...
Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Kidney black market arrests at Apollo hospital in Delhi

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Each morning when I manage this blog I erase spam comments, and many of them relate to kidney sales. You can see typical ones on the Google...
Monday, June 20, 2016

Pollak on Marriage Markets

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Here's a new NBER paper on marriage by Bob Pollak: Marriage Market Equilibrium Robert A. Pollak NBER Working Paper No. 22309 I...
Sunday, June 19, 2016

The regulated market for the resale of grave sites (and the black market of unregulated sales)

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Benjamin Kay points me to a 2013 story in The Forward about the resale market for unused grave sites: Black Market for Jewish Grave Sites ...
Saturday, June 18, 2016

Market design at the University of Chicago

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Chicago is making a home for market design. .. Mohammad Akbarpour and Eric Budish's market design class at University of Chicago
Friday, June 17, 2016

Podcast about Who Gets What and Why (now in paperback)

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Here's an interview about Who Gets What and Why, now in paperback .
Thursday, June 16, 2016

The marijuana business in the U.S.: legal in some states, but still illegal under Federal law.

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The Guardian suggests that Canada may soon find commercial opportunities in marijuana : Will Canada become America's cannabis capital?...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Second Workshop on “Marketplace Innovation” June 15, 2016 NYU Stern

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Marketplace Innovation Workshop Second Workshop on “Marketplace Innovation” June 15, 2016 NYU Stern In conjunction with the 2016 Infor...