Sunday, January 9, 2022

Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE) Conference from July 1 to September 16, 2022.

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  Here's the call for papers for the series of summer conferences to be held at Stanford this summer, hopefully in person. SITE 2022 Con...
Saturday, January 8, 2022

Legally fragmented markets for marijuana create unusual alliances

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 Who will be most in favor of eliminating the federal ban on marijuana in the US?  Not necessarily growers and sellers in the many states in...
Friday, January 7, 2022

Black markets in border crossing

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 Human smuggling across borders has become a substantial business, with the demand by desperate migrants being filled by criminal gangs, som...
Thursday, January 6, 2022

The design and performation of markets: a discussion, by Michel Callon and Alvin Roth in the AMS Review

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 The AMS Review , a journal of the American Marketing Society, has put together an issue on the theory of markets.  When I was approached by...
Wednesday, January 5, 2022

The Professional Psychology Match and post-match scramble

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 Here's an article that (among other things) describes the APPIC Match, and the more recently organized (and regularized) post-Match scr...
Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson. From theory to practice in auctions (in French)

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  Here's a tribute to Milgrom and Wilson in French (but Google translate does a pretty good job): Paul Milgrom et Robert Wilson. De la t...
Monday, January 3, 2022

Rising Stars in Market Design, featuring Alex Chan, Aram Grigoryan and Dong Woo Hahm, at the Tokyo Market Design center

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 The University of Tokyo Market Design center hosts Rising Stars in Market Design Alex Chan ,  Aram Grigoryan ,  Dong Woo Hahm
Sunday, January 2, 2022

Decriminalizing personal drug use

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 The WSJ has the story Some Cities Turn to Decriminalizing Drugs as Overdoses Climb. Toronto follows Vancouver and the state of Oregon in se...
Saturday, January 1, 2022

Rainbow over Stanford

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A little sunshine after a tough Covid year and more, and a long drought. I took this picture looking out from in front of the Math building....
Friday, December 31, 2021

The year in passings

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  This year I noted the following deaths: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 John Morgan (1967-2021) Thursday, October 21, 2021 Janos Kornai (1928...
Thursday, December 30, 2021

Disgust

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  The NY Times has a story about the emotion of disgust, focusing on the work of psychologists Paul Rozin and (his student)  Jonathan Haidt...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Intergalactic market for organs

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 Sometimes it seems that those who are most worried about markets for kidneys are worried about different things than those who are most wor...
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

SMBC on economists and money (and game theory)

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  Here's Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal on economists:  https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/econs And it's a two-fer, economists ar...
Monday, December 27, 2021

Overcoming taboos concerning organ donation: a BBC broadcast

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 Here's a BBC broadcast on generational change that talks about how young people are helping to overcome taboos regarding organ donation...
Sunday, December 26, 2021

A call for kidney exchange in Brazil, in the Brazilian Journal of Nephrology

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  Here's a call to allow kidney exchange in Brazil, to address the shortage of kidney transplants there. Increasing transplantability in...
Saturday, December 25, 2021

Advertising, and kidney donation.

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The Guardian has the story: He put up a Times Square billboard in search of a kidney – and saved more lives than his own .  by Joshua Needel...
Friday, December 24, 2021

Costly information gathering to form preferences in school choice

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 Here's a model suggesting that people for whom it is more costly to gather information about school quality will do less well in prefer...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

College as a Marriage Market, by Lars Kirkebøen, Edwin Leuven, Magne Mogstad

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Here's a recent working paper about college and marriage in Norway: College as a Marriage Market, by Lars Kirkebøen, Edwin Leuven, Magn...
Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Will unionization at universities change the United Auto Workers?

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 There is an increasing presence of labor unions at American universities, which may well bring big changes to those universities. Here is a...
Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Report from Dagstuhl: Matching Under Preferences: Theory and Practice, Edited by Haris Aziz, Péter Biró, Tamás Fleiner, and Bettina Klaus

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  Matching theory was alive and well during the pandemic. Here's a report of the (partially in person) Dagstuhl Seminar, July 25–30, 202...