Thursday, March 25, 2010

Time to scramble, if still on the economics job market

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If you are still on the market for new economics Ph.D.s, now is the time to register for the 2010 Job Market Scramble Registration is open ...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Random matchings

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Random matchings are the subject of two new papers. The first (not in chronological order:) IMPLEMENTING RANDOM ASSIGNMENTS: A GENERALIZATIO...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Misc. kidney exchange links

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The growth of kidney exchange is reflected in the following miscellany of stories. Trading for the Perfect Match: MassGeneral Hospital for C...

Transplant ethics

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Two stories reflect different aspects of current debates about transplantation, and who are appropriate recipients, and donors. Transplant t...
Monday, March 22, 2010

Reserve prices in ad auctions: a field experiment by Ostrovsky and Schwarz

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Reserve Prices in Internet Advertising Auctions: A Field Experiment by Michael Ostrovsky and Michael Schwarz. Abstract "We present the...
Sunday, March 21, 2010

Congressional briefing, postscript

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On March 15, 2010 I gave a 15 minute presentation as part of a Congressional Briefing on the usefulness of Economics (particularly economic...
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Signaling and hiring: one law recruiter's opinion

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From the Faculty Lounge: Tim Zinnecker writes "Speaking solely for myself (and not fellow committee members or my law school institutio...
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Friday, March 19, 2010

Market design posters

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I'm giving a public talk on market design in Toronto on March 22, and Martin Osborne writes: "Hi Al. We're making preparations ...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

Match Day!

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This year's schedule for announcing the results of the resident match ends today, when most graduating medical students will learn where...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Who would sell kidneys, if kidney sales were legal?

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Not just the poor, according to a new (and sure to be controversial) study conducted by interviewing people at regional rail and urban troll...

Wiseguy Tickets

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If I were planning to break the laws on ticket resales, I think I would refrain from calling my company Wiseguy Tickts: 4 Charged in Concert...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

B2B finance

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Page 14 of a recent report by Morgan Stanley focuses on The Receivables Exchange , about which I have posted previously. (The Morgan Stanley...

New clearinghouse for new doctors in Scotland

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There have been some changes in the SCOTTISH FOUNDATION ALLOCATION SCHEME , the program that matches new medical graduates to their first po...
Monday, March 15, 2010

New school choice system in San Francisco

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Board Approves New Student Assignment System for San Francisco Schools  (now here ) Most of the last minute discussion was about what pri...
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Sunday, March 14, 2010

Raffle for a human egg

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The Times of London reports: IVF doctors to raffle human egg "A FERTILITY clinic is raffling a human egg in London to promote its ne...
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Saturday, March 13, 2010

School choice in Britain

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A story in the Telegraph appears to report the remarkable fact that some schools in Britain are more popular than others, and are over-deman...
Friday, March 12, 2010

Congressional briefing on market design

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CONSORTIUM OF SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATIONS You are invited to a Congressional Briefing on “Better Living through Economics: How Fundamental E...

Elliott Spitzer on government’s role in the market

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Government’s proper role in the market , in the Boston Review. Spitzer writes from the point of view of a former Attorney General of New Yor...
Thursday, March 11, 2010

Wikis

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My busy sometimes co-blogger Peter writes: "I was just reading about the company "Wikia," which is owned by Wikipedia founder...
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Law faculty recruitment

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The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) helps organize law faculty recruitment , with services including a database of candidates cal...
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Baby Markets

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I've just ordered this new book (only in part to find out why the ratio of female to male authors is drawn from such a different distrib...
Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Kidney exchange news from Britain

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David Manlove writes: Dear Al, I just wanted to pass on some KE news: the first 3-way kidney exchange in the UK has just been announced: htt...
Monday, March 8, 2010

Reading, writing and apologizing about repugnant transactions: Repugnance at multiple levels

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A story in Al Jazeera concerns conflicting views of repugnant transactions --things that some people think other people shouldn't do--on...
Sunday, March 7, 2010

"Tissue rights"

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Who has the rights to a cell line created from cancerous tissue? The NY Times reviews the book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” (Crown...
Saturday, March 6, 2010

Price gouging and proposed legal remedies

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Some more interesting posts on price gouging from Michael Giberson at Knowledge Problem : A private right of action on price gouging and Pri...
Friday, March 5, 2010

Embryo exchange in Georgia

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It's not what it sounds like, and it doesn't have tax consequences: Embryo Exchanges and Adoption Tax Credits by Sarah B. Lawsky and...

Matching for adoption

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"In most cases, a successful domestic adoption is the result of a match between a birth mother (BMO hereafter) who seeks to relinquish ...
Thursday, March 4, 2010

Same sex marriage in Mexico City: starting today

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Gay Marriage Puts Mexico City at Center of Debate : "A new Mexico City law goes into effect March 4 that will allow same-sex couples t...

Same sex marriage in Washington D.C., starting yesterday

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Gay Marriage Is Now Legal in Washington "Gay-rights advocates hailed the day as a milestone for equal rights and a symbolic victory as ...

Same sex unions in the Anglican church

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Across the pond: Anglican bishops back end to ban on gay civil partnerships in church "Gay couples could soon be allowed to “marry” in...
Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Academic job markets in the Humanities

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The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has issued a new report as a result of a set of surveys of Humanities departments. Here is the an...
Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Assisted suicide, the debate continues in England and Switzerland

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Assisted suicide , a widely repugnant transaction, continues to be the subject of public discussion in England. The Telegraph reports a new ...
Monday, March 1, 2010

Economics job market scramble

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If you are a new economics Ph.D. and the market is going slowly, hang in there. Similarly if you are a department or other employer who is s...
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Sunday, February 28, 2010

The market for cooked food (and thoughts of D'Artagnan at Maastricht)

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The market for pleasure boats ranges from canoes to yachts, and air transport ranges from economy class to big private jets, but the market ...

Living Liver and Kidney Donation

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The American Journal of Transplantation has assembled a "virtual issue" of articles they have published on various aspects of live...
Saturday, February 27, 2010

Herb Scarf explains mathematical economics

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Herb Scarf (who certainly knows) explains what is mathematical economics to a Humanities audience. His powerpoint slides for that talk are ...
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Friday, February 26, 2010

The Future of Same Sex Marriage

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The University of San Francisco Law Review's Spring Symposium, held today, is on The Future of Same-Sex Marriage . I like the sound of t...

Stability may be hard to achieve in decentralized matching

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So says a paper by Muriel Niederle and Leeat Yariv : Decentralized Matching with Aligned Preferences Abstract. We study a simple model of a...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Compatible pairs in kidney exchange

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The question of whether compatible patient-donor pairs should be invited to take part in kidney exchange is gaining some exposure with rece...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Market design at Yahoo!

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Here's a project description from Yahoo! Research: Microeconomics and Market Design By Michael Schwarz and David Reiley What are the ef...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Choosing schools (in NYC and SF)

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I've written elswhere about the school choice process for public schools in San Francisco and for high schools in New York City . But, r...
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Determining death for deceased organ donation

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Darshak Sanghavi, writing a while ago in the NY Times Sunday Magazine, discusses When Does Death Start? "Organ transplantation must abi...
Monday, February 22, 2010

Kim Krawiec on selling virginity

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Kim Krawiec has a post commenting on recent news stories and linking to a new paper: Like A Virgin? We Sell That Here! "A few days ago,...
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Beer legally for sale in another Mississippi county

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Another repugnant transaction bites the dust: A Voting Result That Faulkner Could Drink To "NEW ALBANY, Miss. — There was a vote here l...