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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Market Design Working Group Meeting

Susan Athey and Parag Pathak, Organizers

October 19-20, 2012

NBER
2^nd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Friday, October 19:
8:15 am	Shuttle Vans (2) depart from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	William Fuchs, University of California at Berkeley Andrzej Skrzypacz, Stanford University Costs and Benefits of Dynamic Trading in a Lemons Market
	Jacob Leshno, Microsoft Research Dynamic Matching in Overloaded Systems
10:20 am	Break
10:35 am	Kenneth Hendricks, University of Wisconsin and NBER Daniel Quint, University of Wisconsin Selecting Bidders Via Non-Binding Bids When Entry Is Costly Sergiu Hart, Hebrew University Noam Nisan, Hebrew University The Menu-Size Complexity of Auctions
	Yeon-Koo Che, Columbia University Jinwoo Kim, Yonsei University Fuhito Kojima, Stanford University Efficient Assignment with Interdependent Values
12:35 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Itai Ashlagi, MIT Alvin Roth, Stanford University and NBER Kidney Exchange in Time and Space
	Tayfun Sonmez, Boston College M. Utku Unver, Boston College Welfare Consequences of Transplant Organ Allocation Policies
2:50 pm	Break
3:20 pm	Peter Cramton, University of Maryland Ulrich Gall, Stanford University Pacharasut Sujarittanonta, Cramton Associates LLC Robert Wilson, Stanford University The Applicant Auction for Top-Level Domains: Resolving Conflicts Efficiently Lawrence Ausubel, University of Maryland Jonathan Levin, Stanford University and NBER Paul Milgrom, Stanford University Ilya Segal, Stanford University Incentive Auction Rules Option and Discussion
5:00 pm	Adjourn
5:20 pm	Shuttle Vans (2) depart from the NBER for the Royal Sonesta Hotel
6:00 pm	Dinner Restaurant Dante at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Saturday, October 20:
8:15 am	Shuttle Vans (2) depart from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Aditya Bhave, University of Chicago Eric Budish, University of Chicago Primary-Market Auctions for Event Tickets: Eliminating the Rents of "Bob the Broker"
	Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Duke University Nikhil Agarwal, Harvard University Parag Pathak, MIT and NBER Centralized vs. Decentralized School Assignment: Evidence from NYC
10:20 am	Break
10:40 am	Qingmin Liu, Columbia University Marek Pycia, University of California at Los Angeles Ordinal Efficiency, Fairness, and Incentives in Large Markets
	Scott Duke Kominers, University of Chicago Tayfun Sonmez, Boston College Designing for Diversity in Matching
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Elisa Celis, University of Washington Gregory Lewis, Harvard University and NBER Markus Mobius, Iowa State University and NBER Hamid Nazerzadeh, University of Southern California Buy-it-Now or Take-a-Chance: Price Discrimination through Randomized Auctions
	Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania Mallesh Pai, University of Pennsylvania Aaron Roth, University of Pennsylvania Jonathan Ullman, Harvard University Mechanism Design in Large Games: Incentives and Privacy
	David Rothschild, Microsoft Research David Pennock, Microsoft Research The Extent of Price Misalignment in Prediction Markets
3:00 pm	Adjourn