Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Market design as a growing part of computer science

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I'm encouraged to see this from Northwestern CS: SPECIAL QUARTER: DATA SCIENCE & ONLINE MARKETS - APRIL 15 TO JUNE 15 "In r...
Monday, April 16, 2018

Safe exchange zones

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Marketplaces aren't just tools to bring potential transactors together, they can also seek to make transactions (physically) safe.  Cri...
Sunday, April 15, 2018

More Backpage (.com) news

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From the Washington Post: Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer pleads guilty in three states, agrees to testify against other website officials ...
Saturday, April 14, 2018

Are financial markets too fast? A discussion of high speed trading (with Eric Budish)

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"On this episode of The Big Question, Chicago Booth Review's Hal Weitzman talks with Chicago Booth professor of economics Eric ...
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Friday, April 13, 2018

Market design conference at Columbia

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COLUMBIA MARKET DESIGN CONFERENCE Friday, April 13, 2018 - Saturday, April 14, 2018 April 13, 2018 8:00-8:25 Breakfast & Registr...
Thursday, April 12, 2018

Re-transplanting an organ that survives its recipient

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From UCLA (where Dr. Jeff Veale is innovating): ‘Re-gifting’ of previously transplanted kidneys extends life for new recipients Approach ...
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Backpage.com, seized by the FBI and indicted by the Department of Justice

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The latest development in the legal battle of Backpage.com , an online marketplace for sex and, apparently, trafficking in women and childr...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Vanderbilt market design conference

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Vandebilt hosted a market design conference this past weekend: Vanderbilt Market Design Conference April 7-8, 2018 Saturday, April 7 ...
Monday, April 9, 2018

Does binding early admissions violate antitrust laws?

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The DOJ seems to be looking into early decision in college admissions. Inside Higher Ed has the story, which makes it sound as if the inves...
Sunday, April 8, 2018

Update on Martin Van Buren high school in NYC

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One goal of the school choice program in NYC is to allow students to avoid failing schools, to which no one can be assigned unless they spe...
Saturday, April 7, 2018

School choice in Chicago and in D.C.

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Here's some news about the new school choice system in Chicago. Here's the press release from Chicago Public Schools: Overwhelmin...
Friday, April 6, 2018

Market Design: Public lecture at Reed College

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I'll speak today at Reed College in Portland OR: Matching Markets and Market Design Markets and marketplaces, which are ancient h...
Thursday, April 5, 2018

Cursing sex traffickers in Nigeria

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In some religious traditions, curses are performative , i.e. performing a curse is thought to have consequences for those cursed.  In Niger...
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Universidade de São Paulo celebrates Marilda Sotomayor

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Marilda Sotomayor Especialista fala de trajetória na Teoria dos Jogos e “Matchings” Em evento da série “USP Lectures”, Marilda Soto...
Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Bob Wilson, Paul Milgrom and Dave Kreps on the future (and past) of Economics

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An interview at Stanford GSB with three of the greatest game theorists. You can read it at this link: The Future of Economics Three award...
Monday, April 2, 2018

Dutch marijuana: where a legal market must purchase from an illegal black market

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 The Dutch (legal) market for marijuana seems as confused as the legal American markets in (now) 30 states, but in different ways. The NY ...
Sunday, April 1, 2018

Headlines that could have been dated April 1

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A woman tried to board a plane with her emotional-support peacock. United wouldn't let it fly. Hundreds of Canadian doctors demand l...
Saturday, March 31, 2018

Science in society at the Exploratorium (video of a panel discussion)

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In late February I took part in a panel discussion about Science in Society, at the Exploratorium. Below is a photo, and the video of the ...
Friday, March 30, 2018

Kidney dialysis on the California Ballot?

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An Orange County Register op-ed discusses a likely referendum to control dialysis costs, and some better proposals... How to help the 18,...
Thursday, March 29, 2018

Early admissions to competitive colleges

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The WSJ updates us on early admissions (they continue to be a big deal):   The Decision That Hurts Your Chances of Getting Into Harvard D...