Monday, September 5, 2016

Budapest in three photos

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The parliament building, the Holocaust memorial by the river, and a shop with excellent, diverse flavors of ice cream...

MIÉRT GYERE EL? von Neumann lecture in Budapest on Who Gets What and Why, Sept 6

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MIÉRT GYERE EL? "We cordially invite you to the 2016 John von Neumann Award Ceremony and the public lecture held by the awardee on th...
Sunday, September 4, 2016

School choice discussion in Indianapolis

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The Indy Star has the story: Will Indy adopt central enrollment system for schools? "A group is developing a one-stop enrollment sy...
Saturday, September 3, 2016

Market designers in Silicon Valley and beyond

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Here's a story that mentions a handful number of economists doing market design inside tech firms:   Goodbye, Ivory Tower.  Hello, Sil...

Sotheby's to Offer John F. Nash, Jr.'s 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

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Sotheby's to Offer John F. Nash, Jr.'s 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "For John F. Nash, the accolade of th...
Friday, September 2, 2016

A perfect match--documentary on the medical match by Dr Trisha Pasricha

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Here's a description of a forthcoming documentary on the National Resident Matching Program ( NRMP ), the resident match : A Perfect Ma...
Thursday, September 1, 2016

Reinhard Selten (1930-2016)

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Reinhard Selten, a pioneer in both game theory and experimental economics, passed away last week. Rosemarie Nagel and Eyal Winter wrote thi...

India considers a Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016 (banning commercial surrogacy, and restricting surrogacy to traditional couples)

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Here's the government press release: Cabinet approves introduction of the "Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016"  "The U...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Google knocks on Uber's door with a ride-sharing service using Waze

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The WSJ has the story about how Google/Alphabet will capitalize on Waze/Google Maps to offer drivers ride shares with people on their route...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

The American Economic Association celebrates Hal Varian as a Distinguished Fellow

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Hal R. VarianDistinguished Fellow2015  "Hal R. Varian is the Chief Economist at Google, which he joined first as a consultant in 20...
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French court suspends burkini ban: repugnant or protected (or both)?

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There was something appropriate about swim suits being banned in France for being insufficiently revealing, but it turns out French citizen...
Monday, August 29, 2016

Harvard and Stanford compared and contrasted, in French: la guerre de l’excellence

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Les Echos has the story: Harvard-Stanford, la guerre de l’excellence , by Lucie Robequain Ms. Robequain spent some time on both campuses...
Sunday, August 28, 2016

Cocks Not Glocks at the University of Texas: Repugnant and protected transactions

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The law allowing students to bring their guns to campus (if they are licensed and at least 21 years old) has now gone into effect, and has...
Saturday, August 27, 2016

The Iranian market for kidneys

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The AP has published this descriptive story about the Iranian market for kidneys: IN IRAN, UNIQUE SYSTEM ALLOWS PAYMENTS FOR KIDNEY DONORS...
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Friday, August 26, 2016

John Dickerson defends his Ph.D. thesis at CMU, on kidney exchange

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John Dickerson will defend today: Computer Science Thesis Defense, Friday, August 26, 2016 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm 8102 Gates-Hillman Center ...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

Compensating bone marrow (blood stem cell) donors: still in legal limbo

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Whether it will remain legal to compensate donors of bone marrow (blood stem cells) remains in limbo (see my various posts on the subject h...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Economists getting jobs as engineers

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Bloomberg (Noah Smith) notices market design:  All of a Sudden, Economists Are Getting Real Jobs " Instead of holding forth on polic...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

More on starting kidney exchange chains with deceased donor kidneys

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Here's a forthcoming letter to the editor in the American Journal of Transplantation: We need to take the next step , by Marc L. Melche...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Quality control of transplant centers, and the choice of who to transplant (and which organs to accept)

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Transplant centers are regulated by measures such as their one-year graft-survival rate, so they feel pressure not to transplant patients, ...
Sunday, August 21, 2016

Who Gets What and Why shortlisted for German Business Book Prize (to be announced in October)

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Deutscher Wirtschaftsbuchpreis 2016: Die Shortlist Google translates:  Dusseldorf (ots)  - The finalists of the German Business Book Prize...