Sunday, November 9, 2014

Matching and Market Design at INFORMS in San Francisco, Sunday November 9

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There's a lot of market design at the INFORMS annual meeting , Nov 9-12. On Sunday I'll start the day off with a talk from  10-10...
Saturday, November 8, 2014

Medically assisted dying in Oregon: Brittany Maynard, RIP

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Here's the story from NBC Death With Dignity Advocate Brittany Maynard Dies in Oregon "Brittany Maynard fulfilled her final wis...
Friday, November 7, 2014

Kidney exchange in Spain: now more than 100 transplants

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Here's some good news about kidney exchange, from Spain. The programme was launched in 2009 First 100 cross-over kidney transplant...
Thursday, November 6, 2014

Further discussion of incentives and kidney donation, including "capitalism as a threat to humanity"

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A paper  in the October American Journal of Kidney Diseases by a group of Australian researchers reports on surveys of a sample of transpla...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Death with dignity developments in Britain

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In the Telegraph: Assisted suicide guidelines relaxed by Director of Public Prosecutions Doctors and nurses who help severely disabled or ...
Tuesday, November 4, 2014

College applications and college apps

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The Chronicle of Higher Ed has the story:  Elite Colleges Explore Alternative to Common App "Admissions officials at some of the na...
Monday, November 3, 2014

New markets for restaurant reservations

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Move over, Open Table.  Matt Buchanan has the story in the NY Times:  Can You Uber a Burger? "In recent months, as retail rents have...
Sunday, November 2, 2014

Better late than never: I become a successful middle school student at the school's 60th anniversary

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Hello to any of my classmates who are attending Middle School 74's 60th anniversary celebration. When I went there, it was a Junior Hig...
Saturday, November 1, 2014

Matching Conference in Glasgow, April 16-17 2015: call for papers

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MATCH-UP 2015 3rd International Workshop on Matching Under Preferences University of Glasgow , 16-17 April 2015 Home Commit...
Friday, October 31, 2014

Deceased donor waiting times, and OrganJet

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Here's an article by Daniela Lamas in the Atlantic on waiting times by region, and how to register at a transplant center outside of yo...
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Thursday, October 30, 2014

Celebrating Gary Becker, Oct 30-31

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A Celebration of the Life and Work of Gary S. Becker October 30–31, 2014 The University of Chicago 
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Traditional auction houses move online

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Competition, like similarity, isn't as symmetric as we think. Where once eBay competed with established auctioneers like Christies and ...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Personalization of prices, and other things, on the web

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Elizabeth Dwoskin has the story in the WSJ: Why You Can’t Trust You’re Getting the Best Deal Online A Study Finds Discriminatory Pricing ...
Monday, October 27, 2014

Microeconomics and computer science at Cornell: auctions and privacy

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Gates Hall isn't a bad name for a building in which to schedule a seminar in which economics and computers are the subject... Joint ...
Sunday, October 26, 2014

A call for reimbursing the costs of kidney donation

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The New Republic carries a passionate appeal by Sigrid Fry-Revere and David Donadio under the headline  America's Organ Transplant Law ...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

Matching German lawyers to their first jobs

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There's a lot of interesting market design problems being studied in Germany these days.  Here's a recent working paper from the De...
Friday, October 24, 2014

Nominating a repugnant transaction

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I use this blog to describe a lot of repugnant transactions, but I try not to pass judgement on them, since the nature of repugnant transac...
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Thursday, October 23, 2014

Approximately school optimal student-truthful school matching via differential privacy

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The paper below   by Kannan, Morgenster, Roth and Wu is being presented today at 12:15 at the Stanford computer science theory seminar (in ...