Saturday, January 5, 2019

Market design at the ASSA on Saturday

I'll attend as many of these as I can today.
A choice of three at 8am:

Advances in Dynamic Mechanism Design


Paper Session

 Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019   8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

 Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International 2
Hosted By: AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
  • Chair: Vasiliki SkretaUniversity of Texas-Austin, University College London, and CEPR

Social Insurance, Information Revelation, and Lack of Commitment

Mikhail Golosov
,
University of Chicago
Luigi Iovino
,
Bocconi University and IGIER
Discussant(s)
Juan Ortner
,
Boston University
Rahul Deb
,
University of Toronto
Christopher Sleet
,
Carnegie Mellon University
Xianwen Shi
,
University of Toronto
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Practical Considerations in Deploying Matching Mechanisms


Paper Session

 Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019   8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

 Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International 9
Hosted By: AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
  • Chair: Alex Rees-JonesUniversity of Pennsylvania

Reducing Congestion in Matching Markets Using Informative Signals

Itai Ashlagi
,
Stanford University
Mark Braverman
,
Princeton University
Yash Kanoria
,
Columbia University
Peng Shi
,
University of Southern California

Obvious Mistakes in a Strategically Simple College Admissions Environment: Causes and Consequences

Ran Shorrer
Pennsylvania State University
Sandor Sovago
,
Vrije University Amsterdam

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Auctions & Mechanism Design

Paper Session

 Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019   8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

 Atlanta Marriott Marquis, L503
Hosted By: ECONOMETRIC SOCIETY
  • Chair: Scott Duke KominersHarvard University

Auctions with Entry Versus Entry in Auctions

Jiafeng Chen
Harvard University
Scott Duke Kominers
Harvard University
Discussant(s)
Xianwen Shi
University of Toronto
Rahul Deb
University of Toronto
Luciano de Castro
University of Iowa
Benjamin Brooks
University of Chicago
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Here's one that combines market design with repugnance:

Sex, Drugs, Kidneys and Migrants: Economic Analyses of Contested Transactions

Paper Session

 Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019   10:15 AM - 12:15 PM

 Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International 5
Hosted By: AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
  • Chair: Nicola LaceteraUniversity of Toronto

Paying for Kidneys? A Randomized Survey and Choice Experiment

Mario Macis
Johns Hopkins University
Julio Elias
University of CEMA
Nicola Lacetera
University of Toronto

Federalism, Partial Prohibition, and Cross Border Sales: Evidence from Recreational Marijuana

Benjamin Hansen
University of Oregon
Keaton Miller
University of Oregon
Caroline Weber
University of Oregon

Crimes against Morality: Unintended Consequences of Criminalizing Sex Work

Manisha Shah
University of California-Los Angeles
Lisa Cameron
University of Melbourne
Jennifer Muz
George Washington University

Craigslist’s Effect on Violence Against Women

Scott Cunningham
Baylor University
Gregory DeAngelo
West Virginia University
John Tripp
Baylor University
Discussant(s)
Matthew Weinzierl
Harvard University
Stefanie Stantcheva
Harvard University
Jennifer Doleac
Texas A&M University
Nicola Lacetera
University of Toronto
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New Advances in Matching with Contracts

Paper Session

 Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019   2:30 PM - 4:30 PM

 Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International 10
Hosted By: AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
  • Chair: Larry SamuelsonYale University

Chain Stability in Trading Networks

John William Hatfield
University of Texas-Austin
Scott Duke Kominers
Harvard Business School
Alexandru Nichifor
University of Melbourne
Michael Ostrovsky
Stanford University
Alexander Westkamp
University of Cologne

Trading Networks with Frictions

Tamás Fleiner
,
Budapest University of Technology and Economics and Eötvös Loránd University
Ravi Jagadeesan
Harvard University
Zsuzsanna Jankó
Corvinus University
Alexander Teytelboym
University of Oxford

Carpooling and the Economics of Self-Driving Cars

Michael Ostrovsky
Stanford University
Michael Schwarz
Microsoft
Discussant(s)
Scott Duke Kominers
Harvard Business School
Ravi Jagadeesan
Harvard University
Larry Samuelson
Yale University
Edward L. Glaeser
Harvard University
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