Sunday, November 1, 2015

Matching and market design at the INFORMS meeting in Philadelphia, Nov 1-4

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If I were at the INFORMS meeting in Philadelphia, I'd enjoy lots of sessions on matching and market design, by a variety of (increasing...
Saturday, October 31, 2015

Update on the OPTN/UNOS kidney paired donation pilot program through October 2015

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Here's a brief update on the UNOS KPD pilot program : Kidney paired donation pilot program: Five years of lifesaving service, OCT 26,...
Friday, October 30, 2015

Repugnant Markets and Forbidden Transactions at the WZB (video)

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Here's a video of my recent talk at the WZB in Berlin. Dorothea Kubler introduces me. My talk goes to 55:15  minutes, and then there ...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Paying for (imported) blood products in Britain

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Yesterday's post about paying for blood plasma in Canada reminded me of this story that The Guardian ran earlier in the year: Blood mo...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Bleeding for Canada: plasma exports from the US to Canada

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In the HuffPo:, Peter Jaworski begins his rant about the blood supply with a good line about food:   Commodifying Blood Donation Could Solv...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Chapter 4 of Who Gets What and Why, in the Milken Institute Review (with art work...)

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The Milken Institute Review, Fourth Quarter 2015, has published an excerpt--Chapter 4--of Who Gets What and Why.  It comes with illustratio...
Monday, October 26, 2015

An interview about market design, in Polish

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Google translate seems to work less well in Polish than in some other languages I've been interviewed in, but if you already read Polis...

Why most kidney exchange chains have patients receive a kidney before their donor donates one

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A "how could things go wrong" story from Canada, when a donor donates before her recipient receives a kidney (due to a last minut...
Sunday, October 25, 2015

Support from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), and from the National Science Foundation (NSF)

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The current newsletter of the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation has taken note of the early support that Ido Erev and I received from...
Saturday, October 24, 2015

Market design conference at Microsoft Research New England, Oct 24-25

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Immediately following the NBER market design conference is another, at Microsoft Research New England: Designing the Digital Economy , Octo...
Friday, October 23, 2015

Honoring Hugo Sonnenschein, University of Chicago October 23–24, 2015

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I'm in Berlin today, heading to Chicago to help celebrate Hugo Sonnenschein: Conference Honoring Hugo Sonnenschein, University of Chi...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Repugnant transactions and forbidden markets at the WZB in Berlin

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Yesterday I gave the Harnack Lecture to the Max Planck Society, and today I speak at the WZB... Repugnant Markets and Forbidden Transactio...

Market Design conference at the NBER, Oct 23-24

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I'll be elsewhere, but this looks like fun: Market Design Working Group Meeting Michael  Ostrovsky  and Parag Pathak, Organizers...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Is it unethical to pay more than $10,000 for human egg donation? (An antitrust suit...)

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The NY Times has the story:  Egg Donors Challenge Pay Rates, Saying They Shortchange Women " In a federal lawsuit, a group of women ...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

“Coping with difficult decisions: An Experimental Economics perspective” in Dusseldorf

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I'm arriving in Dusseldorf today, for a workshop marking the end of a years-long project originally organized by Reinhard Selten: Cl...
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