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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Market Design Working Group Meeting

Susan Athey and Parag Pathak, Organizers

June 8-9, 2014

Sheraton Palo Alto
Sequoia/Oak Room
625 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA

PROGRAM

Participant List

Sunday, June 8:


8:30 am


Continental Breakfast


9:00 am


Haluk Ergin,
University of California at Berkeley
Tayfun Sonmez, Boston College
Utku Unver, Boston College
Living Donor Lobar Liver/Lung Exchange

9:45 am

Yeon-Koo Che, Columbia University
Jinwoo Kim,
Seoul National University
Fuhito Kojima, Stanford University
Stable Matching in Large Economies

10:30 am

Break

11:00 am

Nicolas Lambert, Stanford University
Michael Ostrovsky, Stanford University, Google, and NBER
Mikhail Panov, Stanford University
Strategic Trading in Informationally Complex Environments

11:45 am

Nima Haghpanah, Northwestern University
Jason Hartline, Northwestern University
Reverse Mechanism Design

12:30 pm

Lunch

2:00 pm

Umut Dur, North Carolina State University
Scott Duke Kominers, Harvard University
Parag Pathak,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Tayfun Sonmez, Boston College
The Demise of Walk Zones in Boston: Priorities vs. Precedence in School Choice

2:45 pm

Nikhil Agarwal, Yale University and NBER
Paulo Somaini,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Identification and Estimation in Manipulable Assignment Mechanisms


3:30 pm


Break


4:00 pm


Paul Milgrom, Stanford University
Ilya Segal, Stanford University
Deferred-Acceptance Auctions and Radio Spectrum Reallocation

4:45 pm

Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER
Denis Nekipelov, University of Virginia
Designing Large Advertising Markets When Agents Have Heterogeneous Objectives

5:30 pm

Adjourn


7:00 pm


Dinner at Il Fornaio
520 Cowper Street, Palo Alto

(Please note: This dinner is only for faculty members invited by NBER to the market design working group. 
Unfortunately we cannot accommodate student attendees nor attendees who registered for the conference through EC Workshops and Tutorials.)



Monday, June 9:

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER
Chiara Farronato, Stanford University
Jonathan Levin, Stanford University and NBER
Neel Sundaresan,
eBay Research Labs
Sales Mechanisms in Online Markets: What Happened to Internet Auctions?


9:45 am


Lawrence Ausubel, University of Maryland
Oleg Baranov, University of Colorado Boulder
Revealed Preference in Bidding: Empirical Evidence from Recent Spectrum Auctions

10:30 am

Break


11:00 am


Bradley Larsen, Stanford University and NBER
The Efficiency of Dynamic, Post-Auction Bargaining: Evidence from Wholesale Used-Auto Auctions

11:45 am

Eric Budish, University of Chicago
Judd Kessler, University of Pennsylvania
Changing the Course Allocation Mechanism at Wharton

12:30 pm

Joint ACM EC and NBER Lunch

2:00 pm

A Joint Session for EC, NBER and Decentralization on CS and Economics

Organized by the Events Chairs:  

Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER
Moshe Babaioff, Microsoft
Vincent Conitzer, Duke University
David Easley, Cornell University
Fuhito Kojima, Stanford University
Scott Page, University of Michigan
Parag Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Invited Speakers, Titles and Links to Abstracts:

Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER The Economics of Crypto-Currencies
Joaquin Candela, Facebook Machine Learning and the Facebook Ads Auction
Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University Computational Problems for Designed Social Systems
Tim Roughgarden, Stanford University Approximately Optimal Mechanisms Motivation, Examples, and Lessons Learned

5:30 pm

Adjourn

The joint conference, with activities by EC and Decentralization, will continue from Tuesday to Thursday.  On Tuesday morning, EC will have a keynote talk by Matt Jackson, followed by a poster session and EC technical session.  Additional details on the EC Conference, including registration information are available at http://www.sigecom.org/ec14/index.html