Thursday, November 10, 2022

Challenge trials for future Covid vaccines are still needed, by Stanley Plotkin and Josh Morrison

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 Covid is still with us, new vaccines are needed and will likely continue to be needed into the forseeable future, and the case for human ch...
Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Market design coffee m&ms

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  Here's an inside joke, for market design coffee (and candy) fans, particularly for regulars at our market design coffees at Stanford. ...
Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Design, at Berkeley MSRI, August 21-December 20, 2023 (applications open)

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  Apply now to join a semester of interdisciplinary workshops on market and mechanism design, from the point of view of mathematicians, comp...
Monday, November 7, 2022

Stanford Economics Ph.D. Job Market Candidates for the 2022-23 Economics Job Market.

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 22 candidates for the  2022-23 Economics Job Market , from B to Z. Stanford, Department of Economics Job Market Candidates Available Novemb...
Sunday, November 6, 2022

Limiting congestion by limiting applications, or making them costly

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  Here's a paper that investigates two alternatives to limiting congestion in college admissions: one is to limit applications, and the ...
Saturday, November 5, 2022

Liver exchange--a review by Agrawal, Gupta and Saigal

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   Here's a review of liver exchange in the transplant literature, with some comparisons to kidney exchange. Paired exchange Living dono...
Friday, November 4, 2022

NBER Market Design Working Group Meeting, Fall 2022, at Stanford, today and tomorrow

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  While I'm away , the NBER Market Design meeting will convene at Stanford today and tomorrow.  The first paper is presented by Alex Cha...
Thursday, November 3, 2022

Hervé Moulin is celebrated in Paris

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  I'm in Paris to speak tomorrow at a ceremony and conference in honor of Hervé Moulin .   A focus of the talks will be Moulin's wor...
Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Managing inter-district school choice, by Yuchiro Kamada and Fuhito Kojima

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 Here's a paper that considers inter-district school choice, motivated by Tokyo day care centers.  I think  a similar problem arises in ...
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Affirmative action at Harvard and elsewhere, by Roland Fryer

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  As the Supreme Court starts to hear arguments about affirmative action in college admissions, at Harvard and the University of North Carol...