Sunday, February 15, 2015

First kidney exchange chain in Mexico

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I believe that this recent exchange chain in Guadalajara is also the first kidney exchange of any kind in Mexico:  Hospital Civil logra pri...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

School choice in Denver: how do schools communicate with parents?

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The Denver Post reports on developments in the school choice system there, as parents and schools gain experience:  Marketing, a need and b...
Friday, February 13, 2015

Differential privacy and the market for data, at the AAAS meeting tomorrow

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If you are at the AAAS meetings in San Jose tomorrow, and interested in how the new data environment interacts with privacy concerns, you m...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Unraveling and exploding offers in the market for new private equity analysts

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The unraveling in this market (which is also highly competitive in salaries) continues. That is, vigorous competition by the timing of (ear...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

School Choice Index from Brookings

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The Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings has published The 2014 Education Choice and Competition Index Here is their list of sc...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

"Safety and anonymity" in the design of the Silk Road drug market

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Even illegal markets depend for their success on appropriate design. (And law enforcement may depend on disrupting it...) Bloomberg quotes ...
Monday, February 9, 2015

Mike Rees and reverse transplant tourism in the Toledo Blade

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REVERSE-TRANSPLANT TOURISM: Kidney doctor pairs foreign, U.S. recipients UTMC surgeon says program will save money in long run Publis...
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An economist's perspective on transplantation--in Transplantation (the journal)

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I have a paper in the latest issue of the journal Transplantation, discussing some approaches to current challenges facing transplantation...
Sunday, February 8, 2015

Conference on Auctions, Market Mechanisms and Their Applications (AMMA 2015)

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Scott Kominers writes: "Lirong Xia and I are co-organizing a new iteration of the Conference on Auctions, Market Mechanisms and The...

Uber, surge pricing, and the Red Cross

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Uber, faced with criticism that it raised prices in Sydney during an emergency, but wanting to keep drivers incentivized to be available wh...
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Saturday, February 7, 2015

Differential Privacy: an appreciation of Cynthia Dwork

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On Thursday I heard Cynthia Dwork talk about differential privacy in San Diego, and here is an appreciation of her at the CS blog called Go...

Some history of kidney exchange

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Here's a retrospective paper on kidney exchange and how technology has changed to keep up with the changing environment, just out in In...
Friday, February 6, 2015

Large matching markets as limits

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One popular way to study large markets is to look at limits as market size goes to infinity. This is often the only tool we have to develop...
Thursday, February 5, 2015

Information theory and applications

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I'll be speaking today in San Diego at a conference on  Information theory and applications  Here's the program . I'll give...