Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Duke switches to random roommate matching

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Is it a good idea to allow college students to choose their own roommates?  Duke University returns to administrative matching of first yea...
Monday, March 12, 2018

Transplant diplomacy between China and the Vatican

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The Global Times, a publication of the Chinese Communist Party, reports on further discussion with the Vatican on organ transplantation, in...
Sunday, March 11, 2018

Tax credit for organ donors in Maryland

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The Baltimore Sun has the story: Maryland House passes bills on organ transplants, sponsored by speaker who was saved by a liver transplan...
Saturday, March 10, 2018

Cat meat in India

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Here's a somewhat complicated story from Chennai, which focuses on cat meat being sold as mutton and other deceptions, and on pet cats ...
Friday, March 9, 2018

New York Stock Exchange fined for market design flaws

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The WSJ has the story: NYSE to Pay $14 Million Over 2015 Trading Malfunctions Settlement covers series of glitches that disrupted trading...
Thursday, March 8, 2018

Solidarity between doctors and nurses in Quebec

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Canadian doctors--at least some of them--are different. The Washington Post has the story. Hundreds of Canadian doctors demand lower sal...
Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Kidney exchange for cats

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When you read about a kidney transplant for a cat (see below), you might wonder about the kidney donor.  It turns out the transplant involv...
Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Another New Federal Law Clerk Hiring (Pilot) Plan

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Future law clerks who are already in their second or third year of law school have already been hired, but here's a plan to defer the h...
Monday, March 5, 2018

Unrecognized Single-Gender Social Organizations (USGSO) at Harvard

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Harvard has taken steps to express its repugnance to single-gender social organizations. It is motivated primarily by repugnance to male-on...
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Sunday, March 4, 2018

Deceased kidney allocation in Australia

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What does it mean for kidney allocation to be fair?  A recent paper asks that question in Australia, and supplies some background to the de...
Saturday, March 3, 2018

First kidney exchange in West Virginia

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Another first, not in a far off land, but in West Virginia:   Doctors Perform First Kidney Swap in West Virginia West Virginia has the hi...
Friday, March 2, 2018

The Economist discusses repugnant transactions

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It's good to see repugnant transactions and forbidden markets making it into the (semi-)popular press.  Here's an article from The ...
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Thursday, March 1, 2018

A liver for a kidney?

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One consequence of the growth of kidney exchange is that there is more discussion of novel modes of exchange. Here's an article forthco...
Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Liver exchange: prospects and challenges

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Might liver exchange be attempted in the U.S.?  (Maybe at Penn?). Here's a forthcoming article that considers how the challenges would ...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Auctions and Market Design Section of INFORMS

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Martin Bichler writes: We are excited about the successful formation of the  Auctions and Market Design Section of INFORMS ! Please visi...
Monday, February 26, 2018

Justice and Game Theory: DOJ inaugurates Jackson-Nash Address

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Here's the announcement of a new lecture series at the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, the home of many fine economists ...
Sunday, February 25, 2018

Appreciations of Paul Milgrom from the CME-MSRI prize ceremony

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Here is a link if you can't activate the video above. I blogged about the prize here .
Saturday, February 24, 2018

Debt traps and money lending

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Credit for poor borrowers is a subject of importance in both the developing and developed world. Here's a new paper... Debt Traps? M...
Friday, February 23, 2018

SITE experimental economics conference, August 2018, call for papers

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Call for Papers SITE Experimental Economics Conference August 6 - 7, 2018    The Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics: Wor...
Thursday, February 22, 2018

Kidney exchange in India

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Right now, kidney exchange in India is all done in single transplant center programs. Here's an article advocating inter-hospital excha...