Saturday, January 11, 2020

Kidney exchange, in French, in Forbes

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Here's a short interview in French about kidney exchange, in Forbes France: Alvin Roth, Lauréat Du Prix Nobel D’Economie Veut Revolut...
Friday, January 10, 2020

Risk attitudes in transplantation--then and now

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Organ transplantation has become much more organized since its early days, for both good and ill. Today there's a good deal of regula...
Thursday, January 9, 2020

Reforming stock exchange governance, from the SEC

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It's good to know that sometimes the SEC reads papers by market designers (in this case Budish et al.): Statement on Reforming Stock ...
Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Deceased donor organs and nautical miles

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UNOS has recently announced a new distribution system for deceased kidney and pancreas offers: instead of being offered first to waiting-li...
Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Fake rhino horn

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When is it ok to fight one repugnant transaction with another?  The New York Times has a story of fighting the (repugnant) sales of rhinoce...
Monday, January 6, 2020

Social studies of markets, marketplaces, and market design in the journal Economy and Society

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Economists aren't the only social scientists who study markets and market-like institutions and organizations, and some of the study of...
Sunday, January 5, 2020

ASSA meetings--Sunday market design

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Behavioral Market Design Paper Session  Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020   1:00 PM - 3:00 PM  Marriott Marquis San Diego, Point Loma Hosted By: AM...
Saturday, January 4, 2020

ASSA Market Design on Saturday

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Matching under Inequality: Implications for Policy Paper Session  Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020   8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (PST)  Marriott Marquis Sa...
Friday, January 3, 2020

ASSA meetings in San Diego--Market design on Friday

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The ASSA meetings are a cornucopia.  Here are some sessions related to market design that caught my eye in the preliminary program  for the...
Thursday, January 2, 2020

Global kidney exchange: continued controversies, perhaps moving towards resolution

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As 2019 came to a close, several articles reminded us that global kidney exchange (GKE), while gaining increasing acceptance, still is reg...