Sunday, August 8, 2021

Stanford SITE Seminar: Psychology and Economics, Aug 9-10

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  Session 4: Psychology and Economics Date Monday, August 9, 2021, 9am  -  Tuesday, August 10, 2021, 12:30pm ORGANIZED BY B. Douglas Bernhei...
Saturday, August 7, 2021

Real estate auctions for turtledoves: Klemperer, Baldwin and Teytelboym in the Economist

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 The Economist reports on efforts to reverse the decline of turtledove nesting sites: How an auction is helping Britain’s turtle doves ...
Friday, August 6, 2021

Alternative kidney waitlist designs, by Agarwal, Ashlagi, Rees, Somaini, and Waldinger in Econometrica

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  Here's a paper that seeks to take into account that patients waiting for a deceased organ transplant are forward looking, and make dec...
Thursday, August 5, 2021

Course allocation at the Technical University of Munich, by Martin Bichler and Soeren Merting

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 Here's a paper describing a recently designed and implemented course assignment system at the Technical University of Munich: Randomize...
Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Course allocation at Eötvös Loránd University, by Attila Rusznák, Péter Biró, and Rita Fleiner)

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At  Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary, there's a course allocation system that gives rise to intense course exchange after its officia...
Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Some history of the National Resident Matching Program

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 Here's a short history of the resident match, including the recent merger of MD and DO student applicants, and some thoughts about curr...
Monday, August 2, 2021

Coffee and civilization, at the Museum of Islamic Art in Jerusalem

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“Coffee – East and West” is the title of the new exhibition at the Museum of Islamic Art in Jerusalem." Here's the story from Haare...
Sunday, August 1, 2021

Market design, redesigned (in startups and university labs)

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Market design is evolving, and new ways of organizing it are being explored.  In my post yesterday, I talked about the early work on school ...