Saturday, August 25, 2018

No comment(s)

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In July, just before travelling, I closed the comments on this blog, not because I don't appreciate smart topical comments, but because...
Friday, August 24, 2018

Pay transparency, by Cullen and Pakzad-Hurson

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Here's a contribution to the sometimes confusing debate about salary transparency. '' Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

Martin Shubik, 1926-2018

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Ed Kaplan emails me with the sad news that Martin Shubik died yesterday. Here's the first brief announcement from Yale School of Mana...

Take a break: avoiding congestion in ant colonies and elsewhere

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A recent paper in Science is introduced by the NY Times under this headline: The Secret to Ant Efficiency Is Idleness Here's the pa...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Modern congestion pricing, by Cramton, Geddes and Ockenfels

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Here's a short paper in the July 31 Nature: Set road charges in real time to ease traffic Track vehicles to link tolls with demand an...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

An egregious repugnant transaction

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When I speak about repugnant transactions--transactions which some people voluntarily engage in, but other people think they shouldn't,...
Monday, August 20, 2018

Medically assisted death debated in Australia

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A bill is under consideration in Australia regarding medically assisted suicide, aka death with dignity.  (The politics are complicated by ...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

Data mining for knowledge discovery in London

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24rd SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining August 19 - 23, 2018 - London, UK Here's the program .  I'll be sp...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Diversity isn't just about role models: Alsan, Garrick and Graziani on black male doctors and patients

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Medical compliance--following the doctor's "orders,"--is a big issue in medical care, and here's an article that reports ...
Friday, August 17, 2018

Kidney exchange on NPR

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Two friends told me that they'd heard me on NPR yesterday, and so I searched and found this program on kidney exchange. (At the link be...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

An open marketplace for reinsurance

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Tremor Technologies Inc. has announced its new online marketplace for reinsurance.  Here's the press release: Tremor Technologies, I...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Why aren't clearinghouses used in college admissions?

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I recently had an email from  Professor Deepak Hegde, at NYU's Stern School who asked me a question that led to the following exchange ...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Dealing with shortages of deceased donors in a future with fewer automobile accidents

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Sometimes you find out that someone has already worried about something that you haven't even thought of worrying about.  I worry about...
Monday, August 13, 2018

The King and Lloyd (in special issue of Games and Economic Behavior in Honor of Lloyd Shapley)

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Games and Economic Behavior has published a Special Issue in Honor of Lloyd Shapley: Seven Topics in Game Theory Edited by  David K. L...
Sunday, August 12, 2018

How storks became non-kosher

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When I speak about repugnant transactions--transactions that some people would like to engage in but others think they shouldn't--I don...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

Presumed consent: too early to declare failure, but cautions are plentiful

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Frank McCormick points out a recent report in the journal Health Policy indicating that the Welsh move from opt-in to opt-out or (' dee...