Thursday, January 9, 2020

Reforming stock exchange governance, from the SEC

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It's good to know that sometimes the SEC reads papers by market designers (in this case Budish et al.): Statement on Reforming Stock ...
Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Deceased donor organs and nautical miles

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UNOS has recently announced a new distribution system for deceased kidney and pancreas offers: instead of being offered first to waiting-li...
Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Fake rhino horn

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When is it ok to fight one repugnant transaction with another?  The New York Times has a story of fighting the (repugnant) sales of rhinoce...
Monday, January 6, 2020

Social studies of markets, marketplaces, and market design in the journal Economy and Society

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Economists aren't the only social scientists who study markets and market-like institutions and organizations, and some of the study of...
Sunday, January 5, 2020

ASSA meetings--Sunday market design

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Behavioral Market Design Paper Session  Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020   1:00 PM - 3:00 PM  Marriott Marquis San Diego, Point Loma Hosted By: AM...
Saturday, January 4, 2020

ASSA Market Design on Saturday

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Matching under Inequality: Implications for Policy Paper Session  Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020   8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (PST)  Marriott Marquis Sa...
Friday, January 3, 2020

ASSA meetings in San Diego--Market design on Friday

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The ASSA meetings are a cornucopia.  Here are some sessions related to market design that caught my eye in the preliminary program  for the...
Thursday, January 2, 2020

Global kidney exchange: continued controversies, perhaps moving towards resolution

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As 2019 came to a close, several articles reminded us that global kidney exchange (GKE), while gaining increasing acceptance, still is reg...
Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Kidney exchange explained in 1 minute (video), and a BBC story

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Here's a link to a 1 minute BBC video that was recorded when I was in Berlin recently , discussing how changes in the German transplant...
Tuesday, December 31, 2019

The year in passings

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I noted a number of deaths this year (and memorials for earlier passings):   Michel Balinski (1933-2019)   Alan Krueger (1960-2019)  ...
Monday, December 30, 2019

Some kinds of privacy may be gone forever

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Lots of family secrets are revealed by DNA analysis, and it may no longer be possible to keep those secrets.  That is part of the argument ...