Sunday, April 22, 2018

Deceased donor kidney exchange chain in Italy (and some Italian kidney politics)

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First, some excellent transplant news from Italy: A deceased donor kidney exchange transplant chain has been conducted there. Here's so...
Saturday, April 21, 2018

FCC receives Edelman award for incentive spectrum auction

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Advancing wireless communication: FCC awarded the 2018 INFORMS Edelman Award, the leading award in analytics and operations research ...
Friday, April 20, 2018

Parag Pathak wins the American Economic Association's Clark Medal

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Here's the announcement, which describes Parag's work well: Parag Pathak, Clark Medalist 2018 Parag Pathak See my earlier p...

Should (government) economists be licensed? (Replies from a panel of academic economists)

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The question below, on Occupational Licensing for Economists , is the latest question answered by the distinguished panel of (academic) eco...
Thursday, April 19, 2018

Antitrust and competition in an internet economy: conference at the Stigler Center

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Here's where I'll be today (unfortunately only for the first day of a two day conference), speaking about promoting/preserving comp...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Frontiers of Market Design at Cornell (joint with EC), June 22

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Frontiers of Market Design The first Frontiers of Market Design workshop will be held in Cornell University , Ithaca, NY on June 22, 20...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Market design as a growing part of computer science

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I'm encouraged to see this from Northwestern CS: SPECIAL QUARTER: DATA SCIENCE & ONLINE MARKETS - APRIL 15 TO JUNE 15 "In r...
Monday, April 16, 2018

Safe exchange zones

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Marketplaces aren't just tools to bring potential transactors together, they can also seek to make transactions (physically) safe.  Cri...
Sunday, April 15, 2018

More Backpage (.com) news

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From the Washington Post: Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer pleads guilty in three states, agrees to testify against other website officials ...
Saturday, April 14, 2018

Are financial markets too fast? A discussion of high speed trading (with Eric Budish)

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"On this episode of The Big Question, Chicago Booth Review's Hal Weitzman talks with Chicago Booth professor of economics Eric ...
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Friday, April 13, 2018

Market design conference at Columbia

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COLUMBIA MARKET DESIGN CONFERENCE Friday, April 13, 2018 - Saturday, April 14, 2018 April 13, 2018 8:00-8:25 Breakfast & Registr...
Thursday, April 12, 2018

Re-transplanting an organ that survives its recipient

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From UCLA (where Dr. Jeff Veale is innovating): ‘Re-gifting’ of previously transplanted kidneys extends life for new recipients Approach ...
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Backpage.com, seized by the FBI and indicted by the Department of Justice

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The latest development in the legal battle of Backpage.com , an online marketplace for sex and, apparently, trafficking in women and childr...