Saturday, August 13, 2022

MATCH-UP 2022, August 24-26, 2022, TU Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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  MATCH-UP 2022, August 24-26, 2022, TU Vienna, Vienna, Austria registration for the workshop is only possible until August 16, 23:59 CET: h...
Friday, August 12, 2022

Are sociology and economics coming closer together? Philippe Steiner in Acta Oeconomica

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 Professor Philippe Steiner , of the Groupe d’Etudes des Méthodes de l’Analyse Sociologique de la Sorbonne, thinks that these days sociology...
Thursday, August 11, 2022

MEDIEVAL MATCHING MARKETS by Lars Boerner and Daniel Quint

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 As I'll explain below, here's a long-awaited paper that fully qualifies for that description: MEDIEVAL MATCHING MARKETS by Lars Bo...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Pharmacy Benefit Managers--Alex Chan on NPR's Planet Money podcast

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  Alex Chan is interviewed on the role of pharmacy benefit managers, their role in drug pricing, and some problems with the market design. ...
Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Do repugnant markets corrupt society? Kim Krawiec calls for evidence...

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 Kim Krawiec , who studies taboo trades from a legal perspective, thinks that people who claim that repugnant transactions undermine society...
Monday, August 8, 2022

Renewal: "My donor wanted to give me her kidney — and get home in time for Shabbat"

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  When reporter Stewart Ain needed a kidney transplant, he contacted Renewal . He explains the process that led to him being matched to an a...
Sunday, August 7, 2022

Jobs and spouses in Denmark

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  Matching is both consequential and difficult : it is how we sort into jobs and careers, and marriages and families.  Here's a paper th...
Saturday, August 6, 2022

Market design in an historical perspective, by Basshuysen in J. Economic Methodology

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 I pay some attention to how market design is discussed in the history/sociology of science and methodology/history of thought literatures (...
Friday, August 5, 2022

Busing for schools in Boston and NYC, by Angrist, Gray-Lobe, Idoux & Pathak

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 One of the spinoffs of the design of school choice systems in Boston, NYC and elsewhere is that it has opened up the empirical study of sch...
Thursday, August 4, 2022

UNOS hearing in the Senate

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 Yesterday in D.C. ... a tough hearing of the Senate Finance committee.  You can listen to the video now, but it looks like the committee wi...
Wednesday, August 3, 2022

UNOS and organ transplant technology

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 Organ transplant  communications and logistics are difficult, and current procedures are clunky. But never attribute to malevolence what ca...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

American Finance Association guidelines to prevent unravelling of the job market

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 Zoom is changing interview practices, and there's concern that academic markets for new Ph.D grads could unravel. The AFA is on the cas...
Monday, August 1, 2022

The Allocation of Food to Food Banks by Canice Prendergast in the JPE

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  The Allocation of Food to Food Banks by Canice Prendergast ,  Journal of Political Economy  130, 8, 1993-2017. Abstract: "Feeding Am...
Sunday, July 31, 2022

No divorce in Missouri while pregnant

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The post-Roe change in the availability of abortions will have many consequences, not all of them obvious.  It may prevent some divorces in ...
Saturday, July 30, 2022

Harm reductions (fentanyl test strips) remain illegal in Texas

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It's a long way from Texas to Vancouver . This recent story from the Texas Monthly caught my eye: Fentanyl Test Strips Could Save Lives—...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Fentanyl by prescription: a Vancouver experiment

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 Part of the problem of black markets, particularly for drugs (but not just for drugs) is that customers are dealing with criminals who are ...
Thursday, July 28, 2022

The market for alcoholic drinks in Bangladesh

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Doctors can prescribe alcohol in Bangladesh. The Economist has the story: Bangladesh loosens its booze laws "Consumption of alcohol has...