Sunday, July 1, 2018

Ariel Pakes gives the Arrow Lecture in Jerusalem

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If you're in Jerusalem tomorrow, you have a chance to hear Ariel Pakes' Arrow Lecture: 17:00-18:00 Ariel Pakes , Arrow lecture: ...
Saturday, June 30, 2018

Frontiers of Knowledge Awards 2018, video of the presentation ceremony

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Presentation ceremony of the 10th edition of the Frontiers of Knowledge Awards 18/06/2018 Bill Nordhaus at the BBVA Award ceremo...
Friday, June 29, 2018

Marketplaces, Markets, and Market Design (my Presidential address in the July AER)

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Here is the paper that grew out of my Presidential address as I stepped down from the AEA presidency in January. It attempts to summarize ...
Thursday, June 28, 2018

Kidney conference: Paris School of Economics, June 28

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Kidney Allocation : Evaluation and Perspectives" June 28, 2018 Campus Jourdan - Paris school of economics - Paris Localisa...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Alibaba forms Luohan Academy to promote research in digital economy

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I just returned from a lightning visit to Hanzhou, the home of Alibaba, which is founding a research academy to study the digital economy. ...
Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Skimishing over C-Band radio spectrum

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Harnessing Satellite Spectrum for Broadband: Will Incumbents Sell, Stay, or Share? "At its July meeting, the Federal Communications...
Monday, June 25, 2018

Repugnance towards carbon emissions trading

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Here's a report of an experiment motivated by a desire to understand the repugnance felt in some quarters towards emissions trading as...
Sunday, June 24, 2018

Visiting Hangzhou

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I'm on my way to Hangzhou, via Shanghai, for a meeting called by Alibaba.  I'll only be there for two busy days. Read all about it...
Saturday, June 23, 2018

Who accepts which deceased donor kidneys? Agarwal, Ashlagi, Somaini and Waldinger in the AEA P&P

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Dynamic Incentives in Wait List Mechanisms Nikhil Agarwal Itai Ashlagi Paulo Somaini Daniel Waldinger AEA PAPERS AND PROCEED...
Friday, June 22, 2018

Tuneups for kidney exchange by Agarwal, Aslahi, Azevedo, Featherstone and Karaduman

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From the May 2018, first issue of the AEA (not R) Papers and Proceedings: What Matters for the Productivity of Kidney Exchange? Nikhil Ag...
Thursday, June 21, 2018

Repugnance watch: referendum proposes to end (some) legal prostitution in Nevada

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The November ballot will have a referendum on prostitution in two Nevada counties where it is currently legal. The WSJ has the story: Is ...
Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Statement on Harmful Consequences of Separating Families at the U.S. Border, by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine issued the following statement today:  Statement on Harmful Consequences of...

Canada legalizes recreational marijuana

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First, a thoughtful tweet from the Prime Minister, about markets and black markets: It’s been too easy for our kids to get marijuana - a...

Best paper award to Mohammad Akbarpour and Shengwu Li for "Credible Mechanisms"

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Good news from ec18 now going on at Cornell. The Best Paper Award goes to "Credible Mechanisms" by Mohammad Akbarpour and Sheng...
Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Why high incentives might require muscular informed consent (Ambuehl, Ockenfels and Stewart)

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Here's a new paper (or at least just recently on the web) showing that subjects who are enticed by high payments might be disproportion...
Monday, June 18, 2018

Alex Teytelboym on Love Island

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Alex T. writes to let me know that he has been explaining British reality TV: a show where beautiful people couple up and couple on camera,...
Sunday, June 17, 2018

Title IX reporting incentives and mis-incentives

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The Atlantic has a story on a strange Title IX case (and a resulting lawsuit), with the suggestion that it might have to do with perverse l...
Saturday, June 16, 2018

The market for fake phone numbers

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I am not of an age at which I get unwelcome requests for my phone number that I can't simply decline, but if you are, Lifehacker has so...
Friday, June 15, 2018

FRONTIERS OF MARKET DESIGN, June 22 at Cornell

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Cornell is a hotbed of market design these days: here's the second conference there next week. FRONTIERS OF MARKET DESIGN " The...