Friday, November 2, 2018

Private equity job offers to young investment bankers unravel earlier this year, while investment banks try to stem their own unraveling

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Two stories from the WSJ about unraveling, at different parts of the financial industry. 1. The WSJ has publishes this year's unravel...
Thursday, November 1, 2018

Harvard admissions on trial--dualing economist expert witnesses, interesting details

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The Chronicle of Higher Ed has the story: Dueling Economists: Rival Analyses of Harvard’s Admissions Process Emerge at Trial There are ma...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

EconTrack: The AEA's Job Market Information Board

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The AEA has launched a job market information board, which will collect information about the progress of interviews and flyouts for (I ima...
Tuesday, October 30, 2018

The (hot) job market for "Digitization Economists"

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HBS interviews Mike Luca on the market for new economists (and his recent paper with Susan Athey): Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try...
Monday, October 29, 2018

Market design and development economics at Harvard

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There's a two day conference at Harvard, called Development Economics and Market Design   Organizers: Scott Kominers, Natalia Rigol,...
Sunday, October 28, 2018

Repugnance watch: Blasphemy no longer unconstitutional in Ireland, as of yesterday

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Here's the story in The Guardian: Ireland votes to oust ‘medieval’ blasphemy law Decision is latest in ‘quiet revolution’ of seismic ...
Saturday, October 27, 2018

University of Virginia celebrates Charlie Holt

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Thomas Jefferson would be proud: "During the ceremony in the John Paul Jones Arena, held in conjunction with Family Weekend, UV...

Incentives can save lives (Washington Post op-ed with Congressman Cartwright)

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The Washington Post published this week an opinion piece I coauthored with Congressman Matt Cartwright of Pennsylvania, in support of the n...
Friday, October 26, 2018

Computational advances for hard matching problems

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Computational complexity theory focuses on worst case examples to identify hard problems, but the good news is that the instances that aris...
Thursday, October 25, 2018

Building kidney exchange in Europe

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Here's a report, in the journal Transplantation (the full published paper is available at the link at bottom): Building Kidney Exchan...
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Game Theory and Applications in Lisbon, October 25-27, 2018

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The Lisbon Meetings in Game Theory and Applications #10. The Anniversary Edition​. October 25-27, 2018 The program is here . I'll b...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Ethics and Welfare Conference at Penn, Oct 26-7

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"  This conference will be the third in a series. The first was funded by the Becker-Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago ...
Monday, October 22, 2018

Axel Ockenfels on Economic Engineering: Public Lecture in NYC tomorrow, Oct 23

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Axel Ockenfels will be speaking in New York City tomorrow... A LEIBNIZ LECTURE: ECONOMIC ENGINEERING OF HUMAN COOPERATION AND COMPETITI...

Market design to reduce inequality

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The closing talk at the NBER market design conference was delivered by Scott Kominers, on the general theme that we may not care for fully...
Sunday, October 21, 2018

Matching with complex constraints

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At the NBER market design  conference  yesterday, Fuhito Kojima spoke about his paper with Yuchiro Kamada on matching with 'upper bound...
Saturday, October 20, 2018

Centralized Admissions for Engineering Colleges in India

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Yesterday I had the opportunity to hear Yash Kanoria discuss the implementation and operation of a centralized college admissions system f...
Friday, October 19, 2018

NBER Market Design Conference at Stanford, October 19-20

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Here's the program and participant list : Friday, October 19 8:30 am Continental Breakfast 9:00 am Olivier Terceiux,  Top Tr...
Thursday, October 18, 2018

Cannabis in Canada--legal since yesterday

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Here's yesterday's headline in The Globe and Mail: Green dawn: The first day of cannabis legalization in Canada, from coast to coa...
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

The FATE of technology at Penn, today

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F airness, A ccountability, T ransparency and E thics are topics on which economics and computer science intersect each other , and some ot...
Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Kim Krawiec on Repugnant Markets

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One of my favorite scholars on one of my favorite subjects: " In this episode,  Kimberly D. Krawiec , Kathrine Robinson Everett P...