Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Surrogacy in Israel

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In Israel, where commercial surrogacy is legal, surrogates are more and more coming from educated and religious communities.  Haaretz has th...
Monday, July 15, 2024

Dealing with the harms of harm reduction

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 Some of the jurisdictions that pioneered harm reduction measures to reduce drug overdose deaths are dealing with problems of public drug us...
Sunday, July 14, 2024

Kidney exchange collaboration: Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation (APKD) and MedSleuth

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 Here's a press release from MedSleuth about their collaboration with the Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation. The Alliance for Paired K...
Saturday, July 13, 2024

Covid vaccine boosters: promoting uptake is hard

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  A recent study published in Nature shows that inexpensive nudges (to get Covid revaccinations) can have small but measurable effects (abou...
Friday, July 12, 2024

Growth pains for legal marijuana, in Germany and New York

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Transitioning from a thriving black market for marijuana to a regulated legal market isn't so easy. The Guardian has the story from Germ...
Thursday, July 11, 2024

"Discreteness is the better part of value" (Vince Crawford)

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  One of the themes of the conference celebrating Vince Crawford (in anticipation of his 75th birthday) is how two of his early famous pape...
Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Great Market Hall in Budapest

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 It's good to remember that before markets were digital, essentially all marketplaces were places . Here I am trying to take in Budapest...
Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Child labor in soccer

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Many laws seek to protect children from being exploited in the labor market, and there is widespread repugnance when it appears that such ex...
Monday, July 8, 2024

Top-trading-cycles for multiple-type housing markets by Di Feng , Bettina Klaus , and Flip Klijn

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  On it's 50th anniversary, top trading cycles (TTC) is still well worth studying. Here's the latest: Characterizing the typewise to...
Sunday, July 7, 2024

Mechanism and Institution Design in Budapest, in honor of Vince Crawford's 75th birthday: July 8-12 at Corvinus University

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  Here's the high level program , and here's the detailed program . I plan to speak on Wednesday about Ethical Issues in Market Desi...
Saturday, July 6, 2024

Morals and the limits of markets, WZB Berlin, 11 - 12 July 2024

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  Here's a conference that looks interesting: Morals and the limits of markets , WZB Berlin, 11 - 12 July 2024 Organizers:  Hande Erkut ...
Friday, July 5, 2024

The Morality of Markets, by Mathias Dewatripont and Jean Tirole, in the JPE

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 Are markets moral, immoral, or amoral?  Here's a new entry to that argument. The Morality of Markets , by Mathias Dewatripont and Jean ...
Thursday, July 4, 2024

YingHua He 何 英华 has died.

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  Yan Chen passes on the devastating news that  YingHua He 何 英华  passed away on Tuesday night, after struggling with kidney cancer. May his ...
Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Kidney Exchange in KSA

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  Here's a press release from King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Saudi Arabia: KFSHRC Performs Over 5,000 Successful...
Tuesday, July 2, 2024

A proposal to assess public opinion in Europe on compensation for organ donors

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  Here's a paper that proposes doing an experiment. Concerning compensation for organ donors. In Europe.  With the hope of influencing p...
Monday, July 1, 2024

Fairness, efficiency and strategy proofness in assigning indivisible objects: two new papers

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 Here are two new papers on the burgeoning literature of matching people to scarce indivisible resources. First, an experiment by Claudia Ce...
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Stanford SITE, summer 2024 schedule

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  SITE 2024 Stanford Economics is proud to host its annual Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE) conference from July 1 to Sep...
Saturday, June 29, 2024

Do Americans Drink Too Much? Politics and science in the debate over guidelines

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  The WSJ has the story:   Do Americans Drink Too Much? Alcohol Is Driving a Debate in Washington . Agencies, lobbyists and lawmakers are fi...
Friday, June 28, 2024

Getting a Federal judicial clerkship, and then clerking

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 If all has gone according to plan, law students who will graduate next June have just matched with a federal clerkship, if they are going ...
Thursday, June 27, 2024

Freakonomics interviews John Cawley about celebrity advertisements and repugnance (when the celebrity goes bad)

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  My email this morning included this announcement: " Thank you for sitting down with Freakonomics Radio to discuss your work. The epi...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Feedback (from Trump campaign) on open letter by economists

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  I get asked to sign many letters, and  while I'm generally reluctant to venture beyond my own specific areas of expertise into areas i...
Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Participating in the Haj through the black market

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 Saudi Arabia is a bit more open to tourism than it used to be, and that may be making it easier for black market operators to bring pilgrim...
Monday, June 24, 2024

Buying exit from Gaza

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 It's hard to leave Gaza. The NYT has the story: When the Only Escape From War in Gaza Is to Buy a Way Out . For many Palestinians, secu...
Sunday, June 23, 2024

Black markets for cigarettes in Gaza

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  The WSJ has the story: At $25 Each, Cigarettes Are Turning Gaza Aid Trucks Into Targets   By Stephen Kalin, Dov Lieber and Fatima AbdulKar...