Sunday, April 25, 2021

The rise and fall of convalescent plasma as a treatment for Covid

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 The NY Times follows the story: The Covid-19 Plasma Boom Is Over. What Did We Learn From It?  The U.S. government invested $800 million in ...
Saturday, April 24, 2021

Dynamic Matching and Queueing Workshop at Columbia, April 29-30

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  Columbia University's Market Design Initiative is sponsoring a Dynamic Matching and Queueing Workshop on Thursday and Friday April 2...
Friday, April 23, 2021

Challenge trial for Covid-19 reinfection, in Britain.

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A second round of (controvesial) challenge trials is being conducted in England, this one designed to assess how susceptible are people to r...
Thursday, April 22, 2021

Lawsuits to overturn bans on repugnant transactions: kidney sales and incest

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  What to do if a transaction you would like to engage in is banned?  You could sue to overturn the ban.  Here are two recent news stories, ...
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Signals and interviews in the transition from medical school to residency

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Late last year I was interviewed by Dr. Seth Leopold, who is a Professor in the Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine at the Univer...
Tuesday, April 20, 2021

The surge in exam-optional applications for college admissions

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 Covid forced lots of colleges to make standardized tests optional in admissions, and that seems to have jolted the growth in college applic...
Monday, April 19, 2021

Controversial Markets: Public lecture at the Zurich Center for Market Design (video)

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  A video of my April 13 lecture on Controversial Markets is now available at the Zurich Center for Market Design.  (The talk proper is abou...
Sunday, April 18, 2021

Texas gas and electricity

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 The electric power system failure in Texas following severe winter weather continues to draw commentary (and may eventually draw politicall...
Saturday, April 17, 2021

The Leading Causes of Death in the US for 2020

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  In the preliminary data for 2020, COVID is the number 3 cause of death in the US, after only heart disease and cancer.  (Kidney disease mo...
Friday, April 16, 2021

Foster care: professionalism vs. altruism, and related matters

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 Foster care in families is one of the areas in which there is in many places considerable repugnance to paying the caregivers, partly out o...
Thursday, April 15, 2021

Limiting job applications in an online labor market: by John Horton and Shoshana Vasserman

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  Here's an experiment that involved limiting the number of applications to particular jobs in an online labor market, in which many app...
Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Exploding offers of admission to Notre Dame Law School

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Notre Dame Law School has apparently sent out more acceptance letters than it has positions, and the offers will expire automatically once s...
Tuesday, April 13, 2021

The complex economics of dialysis and insurance, in Freakonomics

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 Freakonomics peeks under the rocks to see what crawls out: Is Dialysis a Test Case of Medicare for All? (Ep. 457)  by Stephen J. Dubner ...
Monday, April 12, 2021

Controversial markets, at the Zurich Center for market design

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 I'll be speaking tomorrow (via Zoom) at the Zurich Center for Market Design My topic will be Controversial Markets: Details for Talk on...
Sunday, April 11, 2021

Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG) conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, in October

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 The  Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG) initiative is organizing a conference from  October 5-9, 2021. Here's the announcement a...
Saturday, April 10, 2021

PhD-studentship at Durham University studying international kidney exchange

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 Peter Biro forwards this announcement PhD-studentship at Durham University in Cooperative Game Theory Please find below details on a PhD-st...
Friday, April 9, 2021

17th Matching in Practice workshop May 10 - May 11

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  Here's an announcement for the (online) 17th Matching in Practice workshop   May 10 - May 11. (The submission deadline is tomorrow.) ...
Thursday, April 8, 2021

Congestion in vaccine delivery: uncancelled extra appointments

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 In school choice, the reason universal enrollment systems that give each child one assignment are so desirable is that if children are acce...
Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Organ donation in England: what will be the effect of "soft opt-out"?

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  Here's an article arguing that the shift from opt-in deceased organ donation to opt-out plus family consent may not be a big one unles...
Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Cloud Pricing: The Spot Market Strikes Back, by Dierks and Seuken in Management Science

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  Sven Seuken writes: " I just read your blog post about the new paper on economics of cloud computing , which is very interesting. Gi...
Monday, April 5, 2021

Some economics of providing cloud computing, by Microsoft economists Hummel and Schwarz

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  Here's a paper on an aspect of cloud computing by two Microsoft economists. (Microsoft's cloud service is called Microsoft Azure.)...
Sunday, April 4, 2021

Marijuana bans continue to fall: NY and New Mexico, with more to come

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 The Washington Post has the story: New Mexico set to legalize marijuana as New York ends its pot prohibition    By Katie Shepherd "Cap...
Saturday, April 3, 2021

Reforming organ transplant regulation: create an Office of Organ Policy (Roth and Segal in STAT)

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  Here's an opinion piece published yesterday in STAT, which applauds  some recent changes in transplant regulations, and suggests some ...
Friday, April 2, 2021

Sixth Marketplace Innovation Workshop (MIW) , May 24-27, 2021 (Abstract submission deadline this Sunday)

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 Here's a conference announcement and looming submission deadline: Sixth Marketplace Innovation Workshop (MIW) The conference will be vi...
Thursday, April 1, 2021

Headlines that could have appeared April 1

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  You can't make these things up: Murderer who tackled London Bridge attacker with narwhal tusk pardoned Wild Mountain Thyme trailer bla...