Saturday, November 25, 2023

Memorial service for Vic Fuchs

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  Yesterday, at Etz Chayim Synagogue,  Palo Alto. Here is my brief eulogy: Vic was the patriarch of a clan, and a man of wide and old friend...
Friday, November 24, 2023

Big Ideas: Auctions with Nobel Laureates Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson

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Ran Abramitzky interviews Bob Wilson and Paul Milgrom:
Thursday, November 23, 2023

Thanksgiving cranberries (brought to you by the Ocean Spray cranberry cooperative)

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  The WSJ has the story: These People Are Responsible for the Cranberry Sauce You Love to Hate   By Ben Cohen "Ocean Spray['s...] f...
Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Political leadership in NYC: Mayor Eric Adams on antisemitism

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Elected officials with executive responsibilities have difficult jobs. The Mayor of NYC has to make sure that garbage is collected, that pot...
Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Balance of violence: prison-based criminal cartels, the case of Brazil's PCC.

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The vexed relationship between banned markets and black markets is perhaps nowhere clearer than when prison based gangs of convicted drug de...
Monday, November 20, 2023

Global kidney exchange between Denmark and U.S.

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 Here's a news story from North Carolina, home of one of the patient-donor pairs in the U.S.-Denmark kidney exchange, organized by the A...
Sunday, November 19, 2023

Scott Kominers on the history of matching, at Tsinghua, tomorrow

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 CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture: Scott Kominers "Beginning in Spring 2020, the CMSA began hosting a lecture series on li...
Saturday, November 18, 2023

Will divorce become legal in the Philippines?

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  The NYT has the story: ‘Just Like Medicine’: A New Push for Divorce in a Nation Where It’s Illegal.   A campaign in the Philippines that f...
Friday, November 17, 2023

Report From a Multidisciplinary Symposium on the Future of Living Kidney Donor Transplantation

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  How might we increase the number of lifesaving transplants from living kidney donors? Might we one day be able to reward donors? And what ...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

Top trading cycles 'respect improvements' by rewarding agents whose endowments become more desirable

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  Here's a wide-ranging paper that explores the way the Top Tradinig Cycles (TTC) algorithm 'respects improvements' by rewarding...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

2023 EINSTEIN FOUNDATION AWARD FOR PROMOTING QUALITY IN RESEARCH

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 Here's the press release from the Einstein Foundation in Berlin : THE WINNERS OF THE 2023 EINSTEIN FOUNDATION AWARD FOR PROMOTING QUALI...
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

How have real estate agents kept commissions high? More on steering, by Barry, Fried, and Hatfield,

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 Here's a paper that offers one channel for how residential real estate commissions have been maintained at a more or less constant perc...
Monday, November 13, 2023

More on Realtor's contracts and practices, and the recent court decision

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 Here are some further articles with some details about the recent court decision that real estate contracts are anticompetitive . Both are ...
Sunday, November 12, 2023

Misunderstandings: False Beliefs in Communication by Georg Weizsäcker

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  Georg Weizsäcker  has a new book, just out from Open Book Publishers. You can read online or download it for free, or purchase a printed ...
Saturday, November 11, 2023

Graduate hotels, and campus humor

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  I've been spending some time at Berkeley this quarter, and have twice stayed at the Graduate Hotel adjacent to the campus, Graduate Be...
Friday, November 10, 2023

Kidney Exchange: Within and Across Borders (video lecture).

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 Below is a video of my 40 minute talk at Berkeley on Monday, on Kidney Exchange: Within and Across Borders, at the final workshop on Mathem...
Thursday, November 9, 2023

Algorithms, Approximation, and Learning in Market and Mechanism Design at SLMath Berkeley this week--Thursday

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 Thursday's program (last day)   09:00 am   -  09:45 am Stability and Learning in Strategic Games Eva Tardos ,   Cornell University   09...