Thursday, June 22, 2023

Leo Hurwicz (1917-2008), biography

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  Here's a web site devoted to the biography of Leo Hurwicz, by his son Michael: Leonid Hurwicz: Intelligent Designer
Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Incentive auctions for water rights

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 Here's a press release from Auctionomics , the consulting firm run by Paul Milgrom and his business partner Silvia Console Battilana. T...
Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Equilibrium effects of pay transparency--by Zoe Cullen and Bobby Pakzad-Hurson

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  From the current issue of Econometrica, the lowdown on pay transparency: Cullen, Zoe B., and Bobak Pakzad‐Hurson. " Equilibrium effec...
Monday, June 19, 2023

Stanford graduation--Alex Chan, Ph.D.

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 Congratulations Dr. Chan . Welcome to the club, Alex.
Sunday, June 18, 2023

Black market for mustard in Bogotá

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 The NYT has the story: Colombia’s Mustard Lovers Grow Desperate Amid Saucy Shortage of Dijon . Colombians are scrambling to find the belove...
Saturday, June 17, 2023

Video snippets from the recent challenges of Europe 2023 conference in Croatia

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Friday, June 16, 2023

Ehud Kalai, interviewed on the past and future of game theory

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Here's a half-hour video interview of Ehud Kalai,  by Sandeep Baliga, that touches on the history of game theory at Northwestern and els...
Thursday, June 15, 2023

School choice and related matching algorithms in France, by Vincent Iehlé and Julien Jacqmin

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Here's a recent paper that looks at the assignment of students to some of France's Grandes Ecoles, and draws some conclusions about ...
Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Conference on Economic Design, University of Girona, June 15th-17th, 2023

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  Conference on Economic Design , University of Girona,  June 15th-17th,  2023 Here is the program . Plenary Sessions June 15th, 19:00 Mura...
Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Market design in major league baseball

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  The rules of professional Major League Baseball are changing in an effort to make attending the games more popular.  Among the rule change...
Monday, June 12, 2023

Data privacy concerns in the U.S. and Europe

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A selection from many news stories that touch on data privacy concerns (in the U.S. about Tiktok, in Europe about Facebook...and about DNA):...
Sunday, June 11, 2023

Digital data yields suspect in Idaho murders (NYT)

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 The NYT has the story of how a wide ranging search of a large variety of digital data  led to an arrest of a suspect (whose trial hasn'...
Saturday, June 10, 2023

Canada to require health warnings on individual cigarettes

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  The Washington Post has the story: Canada to require health warnings on individual cigarettes  By Sarah Dadouch "Beginning next year...
Friday, June 9, 2023

Decreasing kidney discards--review, and a call for clinical trials

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 A review of discarded kidneys from a large OPO revealed only modest margins for improved utilization. Bunnapradist, Suphamai MD1; Rosenthal...
Thursday, June 8, 2023

More kidney exchange in the UAE--

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  Kidney exchange in the UAE, with the assistance of the Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation ( AKPD ), took another step forward, with a thr...
Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Snowden and state surveillance: the view from The Guardian, ten years later

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 Here's a look back at the Snowden affair (publication of documents about government surveillance) by the then editor in chief of the Gu...
Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Interview in the Brazil Journal

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 I was interviewed for the Brazil Journal by Giuliano Guandalini. The interview was conducted in English, but appears in Portuguese. We disc...
Monday, June 5, 2023

Alex Chan makes his 'final presentation' at Stanford.

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  Note Alex's shoes
Sunday, June 4, 2023

Organ donation day in Germany

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  Yesterday was organ donation day in Germany. Here's a post from the German Health Economics Association (DGGÖ):  Day of Organ Donation...
Saturday, June 3, 2023

The critical role of Kelso & Crawford in the development of the stable matching literature

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 In the physics literature there has long been an interest in economics (econophysics) that takes many forms. Here's a review of stable ...