Thursday, February 11, 2016

Using deceased donor kidneys to start some kidney exchange chains

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It would save some lives... here's a link to the abstract of a forthcoming paper (more like an editorial, really). Personal Viewp...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Public comments at the SEC about IEX's exchange application: a seminar on the politics of market design

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There's an exciting (if confusing) practical seminar on market design going on on the SEC's webpage these days, where they are post...
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Military draft registration, now for women as well as men?

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The recent discussions of draft registration for women have invited us to recall the discussions about conscription versus a volunteer army...
Monday, February 8, 2016

A WSJ reporter prepares for Valentines Day by interviewing economists about dating sites

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Here's a WSJ interview that mentions, among other things, Soo Lee and Muriel Niederle's experiment with virtual roses: How Econom...
Sunday, February 7, 2016

Mishaps while flying transplant organs

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This news story stopped with the plane, and doesn't say what happened to the organ... No one hurt when jet scheduled to pick up donor ...

Repugnance for money: The Other Paris, by Luc Sante

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Paris is romanticized as the opposite of NY, and poverty as freedom from money, in this review in The Guardian of The Other Paris by Luc S...
Saturday, February 6, 2016

Repugnant transactions in zoos

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The NY Times ran the following story a little while ago: Zoo’s Public Dissection of Lion Makes Denmark Again a Target of Outrage "O...
Friday, February 5, 2016

The high end marijuana market in New York City

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Jacob Leshno draws my attention to this article on how the legalization of marijuana in some U.S. locations (like Colorado, where I am this...
Thursday, February 4, 2016

W.P. Carey Lecture: Who Gets What and Why at Colorado College today

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W.P. Carey Lecture :Who Gets What and Why  with Nobel Laureate in Economics Alvin Roth Presented by  Colorado College at  Cornerst...
Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Repugnant transaction watch: IIT pupil tries to sell kidney to repay loan, but no takers for 'dalit organ'

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Here's a story that is disturbing on several levels:  IIT pupil tries to sell kidney to repay loan, but no takers for 'dalit organ...
Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Barcelona GSE summerforum and BESLAB workshop on Theoretical and Experimental Macroeconomics in Universitat Pompeu Fabra. June 16-17, 2016.

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Rosemarie Nagel sends the following announcment: Conference : Barcelona GSE summerforum and BESLAB workshop  on Theoretical and Experim...

Maladaptive interviewing culture in some residency matches

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Here's a paper that describes the high-pressure interviewing that goes on before the resident match for Radiation Oncology (and propose...
Monday, February 1, 2016

Conference in Lund in June: Social choice (and matching)

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Tommy Andersson writes: The 13 th Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare will take place in Lund, Sweden, from June 28 to...

Collectible cards used to sell razor blades in the 1930's: Al Roth, boxer born in 1913

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Before search word advertising, there were collectible cards... 1938 Famous Prize Fighters : Al Roth #32, series of 50 boxing cards.
Sunday, January 31, 2016

The FCC's upcoming 2016 Incentive Auction: SIEPR policy brief by Greg Rosston and Addrzej Skrzpacz

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Moving from Broadcast Television to Mobile Broadband: The FCC’s 2016 Incentive Auction Gregory Rosston, Andrzej Skrzypacz ...
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Saturday, January 30, 2016

Refugee resettlement as a matching problem in the NY Times

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A lot of thought will be needed about how to customize matching tech to refugee resettlement, but a discussion may be beginning. Here...
Friday, January 29, 2016

Susan Athey on Why Do Technology Companies Hire Economists?

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Why Do Technology Companies Hire Economists? Susan Athey on Quora .
Thursday, January 28, 2016

Paul Terasaki 1929-2016, transplant immunology pioneer

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Here's his UCLA obit:  Paul Terasaki, 86, transplant medicine pioneer, philanthropist, UCLA faculty member and alumnus . Here is what...

Who Gets What and Why in Chinese, and in paperback (in Britain)--the magic of subtitles

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 This picture is of Ivy Li's copy of Who Gets What--and Why in Chinese. I gather that the Chinese subtitle is about 'the shared ec...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

The evolution of kidney exchange--the operational side of market design

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  Market design doesn't stop when the market opens, and it isn't all analytical--a lot of it is operational,  with changes being ...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Boston Globe looks at school choice in Denver and New Orleans

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In the Boston Globe, there's a nice story by Jeremy C. Fox that focuses on school choice in Denver and New Orleans and the work that II...
Monday, January 25, 2016

At Davos: a conversation with Martin Wolf about market design (video)

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Here's a  half hour video of a conversation I enjoyed with Martin Wolf of the Financial Times, at Davos on Friday:  A Journey of Discov...
Sunday, January 24, 2016

Bob Shiller on the need for economists to study the system for saving refugees

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Economists on the Refugee Path He concludes: "Under today’s haphazard and archaic asylum rules, refugees must take enormous risks to...

Economics as gossip

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That's the headline of an interview that appeared yesterday in a Swiss newspaper, BZ the Berner Zeitung, by Stefan Schnyder: «Meine F...

A Dutch exchange for rental housing leases

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A Dutch site that calls itself the largest home exchange site in the Netherlands ( De grootste woningruilsite van Nederland ) seems to offe...
Saturday, January 23, 2016

Chess playing as a repugnant transaction in Saudi Arabia

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The NY Times has the story: Saudi Arabia’s Top Cleric Forbids Chess, but Players Maneuver "Saudi Arabia’s top cleric has declared th...
Friday, January 22, 2016

Davos snapshots

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Climate change 3 Davos economists on Europe’s refugee crisis : And here's a site at which you can s...
Thursday, January 21, 2016

Family consent for (and sometimes veto of) organ donation in England, and presumed consent in Wales

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Here's a BBC report: Organ donations vetoed by hundreds of bereaved families , By Jane Dreaper, 15 January 2016 "Bereaved famil...
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Performance enhancing drugs on campus: Stanford Daily surveys undergraduates

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Here's the article: A Look at Stimulants and Study Drugs on Campus
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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Challenges for the coming year?

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  Four Nobel economists on the biggest challenges for 2016 I responded with refugee resettlement, but see also Bob Shiller, Ned Phelps, an...
Monday, January 18, 2016

Equilibrium, mediation, and differential privacy

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Here's a paper that caught my eye... Robust Mediators in Large Games ∗ Michael Kearns, Mallesh M. Pai, Ryan Rogers,  Aaron Roth, and...
Sunday, January 17, 2016

Reducing the cruelty in food--WSJ on trends in veal production

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As we get more prosperous, we are becoming more concerned about what we eat. Here's a story from the WSJ about veal--meat from calves. ...
Saturday, January 16, 2016

Learning opportunities at Canadian universities

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Two universities I visited recently in Canada offered the following learning opportunities
Friday, January 15, 2016

The photo gallery of retired Harvard economics professors on the Littauer stairway

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Among the many reasons that the Harvard Economics department needs a new or renovated building is that their photo gallery of retired facul...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

Top 25: What corporate America is reading, December 2015

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Here's a best-seller list, published today, that surprised me: Top 25: What corporate America is reading, December 2015 1. "Wh...

Who Gets What and Why: The Economics of Life Choices from School Admissions to Kidney Exchange: SFUEconomics (video)

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A video of the Bank of Montreal Lecture I gave at Simon Fraser University in November is now available:
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

77 Kidney Exchange transplants in 2015 at one transplant center in India

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I received the following cheerful news from Dr. Vivek Kute at the Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Center and Dr. H L Trivedi Inst...
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