Thursday, August 3, 2023

Market design conferences: Marseille, 11 – 15 December, and Santiago 18-20 December, 2023

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  Here's the conference announcement from Marseille:  From matchings to markets. A tale of Mathematics, Economics and Computer Science. ...
Wednesday, August 2, 2023

SITE 2023 Session 2: Market Design Thu, Aug 3 2023, 9:00am - Fri, Aug 4 2023, 5:00pm PDT

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  SITE 2023  Session 2: Market Design  Thu, Aug 3 2023, 9:00am - Fri, Aug 4 2023, 5:00pm PDT Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Wa...
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Ted Groves interviewed by Sandeep Baliga (video)

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Ted Groves reflects on his career and collaborations, including his famous work with John Ledyard   Optimal allocation of public goods...
Monday, July 31, 2023

Altruistic kidney donors in Israel

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  The Forward has the story Why Israel has more altruistic kidney donors than any other country in the world  By Michele Chabin "Israel...
Sunday, July 30, 2023

Congress acts on deceased organ system

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  Last week the House and Senate passed, and forwarded to the president an Act meant to facilitate the reform of the U.S. system for recover...
Saturday, July 29, 2023

Drug markets: the replacement of agriculture by chemistry

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Labs are replacing fields as the source of addictive drugs. Here are two stories, from National Affairs, and the Financial Times. The curren...
Friday, July 28, 2023

David M. Kreps Symposium: Homo economicus, Evolving. November 17, 2023

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Homo economicus, Evolving The Stanford Graduate School of Business is hosting the inaugural David M. Kreps Symposium, entitled  Homo economi...
Thursday, July 27, 2023

Kidney brouhaha in Israel: is a good deed still good when performed by a shmuck?

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 Recently a three way kidney exchange was performed in Israel. This would have been unremarkable under most circumstances: Israel has an act...
Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Paying it forward

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  Scott Cunningham , an economist who devotes a lot of his efforts to providing public goods, recently had a post on the phrase "paying...
Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Incentives in matching markets: Counting and comparing manipulating agents by Bonkoungou and Nesterov

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 Here's a paper that caught my eye in the current issue of Theoretical Economics, Volume 18, Issue 3 (July 2023) Incentives in matching...
Monday, July 24, 2023

Algorithms, Approximation, and Learning in Market and Mechanism Design" November 6-9, 2023 in Berkeley (register for funding)

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  Here's the announcement Register for SLMath (MSRI) Workshop: "Algorithms, Approximation, and Learning in Market and Mechanism Des...