Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Congestion in online shopping

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Too many choices? Subscribe to a shopping service. The NY Times reports: Sites That Send Shoppers What They Might Like " JewelMint ...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Reverse scholarships reversed at KAIST

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A recent article concerning several suicides at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology pointed out that a high powered incen...
Monday, May 30, 2011

An Experimental Study of Sponsored-Search Auctions

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That's the title of a new paper by Yeon-Koo Che, Syngjoo Choi, and Jinwoo Kim. Abstract: We study the Generalized Second Price auctio...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

Misc. kidney exchange

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A nondirected donor chain that accomplished 3 transplants at Emory, where kidney exchange has been going on since 2009: story and video Ki...
Saturday, May 28, 2011

Limits on the scope of markets

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Tim Sullivan points me to this old post by Abe Othman on his blog Constructive Economics:  Horseflesh and Hypocrisy "T. Boone Picken...
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Friday, May 27, 2011

Seeing red at Harvard

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A sea of red at Harvard's commencement yesterday... The Ph.D. grads got out of their gowns pretty fast as they came to lunch... way t...

The market for taxis

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With a Start-Up Company, a Ride Is Just a Tap of an App Away " Uber , a start-up based in San Francisco, offers a cellphone applicatio...
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Thursday, May 26, 2011

College admissions and income diversity

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In this season of college graduations, David Leonhardt reports on the income distribution of students at selective colleges: Top Colleges, L...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Frank Delmonico on transplant tourism in China

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In a News and Views article in Nature Reviews Nephrology, Frank Delmonico describes commercial transplantation in China as still depending o...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Misc. repugnant transactions

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Minn. Voters Will Decide on Gay Marriage Ban "After nearly six hours of emotional debate, a proposed constitutional amendment that wou...
Monday, May 23, 2011

Black Market for Blood

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According to this AP article , Bulgaria is experiencing first-hand the concept of repugnant transactions: "It's a grim reality for ...

Horsemeat in Canada

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Top Chef trots into taboo territory "Producers of the competitive culinary TV show Top Chef Canada galloped headlong into an intern...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

Kidney exchange: the view from Michigan

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Here's a new working paper on kidney exchange, that gives thoughtful attention to the kinds of weights that might be attached to edges: ...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

Market design (and experimental economics) in Australia: job opportunity in Victoria

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It must be a good sign when governments are advertising for market designers with experimental skills... Senior Policy Analyst Experimenta...
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Friday, May 20, 2011

Harvard legacy and waitlist admissions

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The Crimson reports: Legacy Admit Rate at 30 Percent " Harvard’s acceptance rate for legacies has hovered around 30 percent—more than...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Kristof on randomized trials, and economics

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Nicholas Kristof's NY Times column today, Getting Smart on Aid , is a paean to randomized trials experiments, and the work of Michael Kr...

Mentoring doctoral students

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I'm proud to have gotten an award from my students:) It does make me remember that I have some (linguistic) reservations about mentor...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Markets for human hair

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I recently received this email: Hi Al, I noticed that you article posted some time ago ( Markets for hair, blood, plasma and eggs ) con...
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Gender and annuities: insurance as a repugnant transaction in EU

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Considerations of public policy sometimes contribute to making certain kinds of transaction repugnant. Ran Shorrer points me to this recent...
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Monday, May 16, 2011

Cost of kidneys

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Katie Silberman, who was kind enough to write to me about her husband Bryan's kidney transplant in an exchange last July , through NEPK...
Sunday, May 15, 2011

Matching and marriage: my spousonomics interview

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The spousonomics team asks me about matching close to home:  Economists in Love: Al Roth Here's the first question and answer, out of ...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

The market for typewriter ribbons

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...has just taken another hit. I guess I had better retire my manual Corona. Fortunately the ability to type remains a useful skill... The...
Friday, May 13, 2011

Society for Economic Design Conference in Montreal in June

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The meeting is June 15-17, and the  preliminary program is online. There are many sessions on matching (I remember when matching was a ve...
Thursday, May 12, 2011

Marriage among the Tinkers of Thrace

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"The NY Times reports on the evolution of the market for brides among Bulgarian Roma: Subtle Shift at the Gypsy Bride Market " S...
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Pro-social behavior of all kinds: Judd Kessler

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Judd Kessler defended his dissertation yesterday (successfully, I should add:). His work includes lab and field investigations of ch...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Boston School Choice: it's not all location

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The latest article in the Globe's series on school choice in Boston, by Jenna Russell, makes very graphically a point I like to make by ...
Monday, May 9, 2011

The international market for stolen cars

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The Washington Post reports: International theft rings steal hundreds of vehicles in D.C. area every year "Officials estimate that ea...
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Sunday, May 8, 2011

Lending library for newspapers (help wanted ads, mostly)

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Sonia Jaffe points me to this article: Renting a read from 'newspaper landlords' "Garum Tesfaye is one of Addis Ababa's ...
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Saturday, May 7, 2011

High school choice in New York City: some advice for next year

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An article in the NY Times discusses the plight of 8th graders who do not match to a school in the main round of the high school match:  Los...
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In Chicago

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http://mfi.uchicago.edu/events/20110506_matching/index.shtml
Friday, May 6, 2011

Milgrom on market design

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Paul Milgrom has an article in the latest  (April 2011) issue of Economic Inquiry: CRITICAL ISSUES IN THE PRACTICE OF MARKET DESIGN Abstr...
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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Nonsimultaneous kidney exchange chains produce more transplants than simultaneous chains (published)

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When I published the earlier post with the same name , the paper hadn't yet been published, and medical journal rules meant that I could...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Misc. kidney exchange

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A larger than usual exchange in SF: SF hospital performs 10-person kidney exchange "Five people have received healthy kidneys from fiv...
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Bait and switch in law school admissions?

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A much blogged about article in the NY Times discusses how law schools offer many admitted students merit scholarships whose continuation de...
Monday, May 2, 2011

Love and Warcraft

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Any venue in which lots of single people invest time and energy in something that interests them can provide the thickness needed for an eff...
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Sunday, May 1, 2011

“Matching markets: Theory and practice”

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That's the title of this paper by Atila Abdulkadiroglu and Tayfun Sonmez, presented at the 2010 Econometric Society World Congress, in ...
Saturday, April 30, 2011

Designing "hidden markets"--Sven Seuken

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Yesterday  Sven Seuken  defended his dissertation, which is on the interface of CS and Economics. In particular, he is interested in designi...
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Friday, April 29, 2011

First kidney exchange in Spain

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La Vanguardia reported yesterday on a nondirected donor chain, the first in Spain (and I think the first kidney exchange in Spain): Éxito ...
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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Expectations and reference points: Andreas Fuster

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Andreas Fuster successfully defended his dissertation today on various aspects of behavioral economics. The part that was his job talk was ...