Market Design Working Group Meeting
Organized by Michael Ostrovsky and Parag A. Pathak
October 18-19, 2019
NBER, Feldstein Conference Room, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Friday, October 18
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

Supply Reduction in the Broadcast Incentive Auction (slides)

Christina Aperjis, Power Auctions LLC
Lawrence Ausubel, University of Maryland, College Park
Oleg V. Baranov, University of Colorado, Boulder
9:45 am

Machine Learning-Powered Iterative Combinatorial Auctions (slides)

Gianluca Brero, Harvard University
Benjamin Lubin, Boston University
Sven Seuken, University of Zurich
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am

Affirmative Action in India via Vertical and Horizontal Reservations

Tayfun Sönmez, Boston College
M. Bumin Yenmez, Washington University in St. Louis
11:45 am

Choice and Consequence: Assessing Mismatch at Chicago Exam Schools

Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Parag A. Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Roman Zarate, University of Toronto
12:30 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm

Evaluating with Statistics: Which Outcome Measures Differentiate Among Matching Mechanisms? (slides)

Marek Pycia, University of Zurich
2:45 pm

Information Acquisition Costs in Matching Markets

Nicole Immorlica, Microsoft Research
Jacob D. Leshno, University of Chicago
Irene Y. Lo, Stanford University
Brendan Lucier, Microsoft Research
3:30 pm
Break
4:00 pm

Unpaired Kidney Exchange: Overcoming Double Coincidence of Wants without Money

Mohammad Akbarpour, Stanford University
Julien Combe, CREST - Ecole polytechnique
Yinghua He, Rice University
Victor Hiller, Université Paris 2
Robert Shimer, University of Chicago and NBER
Olivier Tercieux, Paris School of Economics
4:45 pm

Voluntary Regulation: Evidence from Medicare Payment Reform

Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER
Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Yunan Ji, Georgetown University and NBER
Neale Mahoney, Stanford University and NBER
5:30 pm
Adjourn
6:30 pm
Group Dinner at Bambara
(across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Saturday, October 19
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

Matching for the Israeli "Mechinot" Gap-Year Programs: Handling Rich Diversity Requirements

Yannai A. Gonczarowski, Harvard University
Lior Kovalio, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Noam Nisan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Assaf Romm, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Stanford University
9:45 am

Salary Disclosure and Hiring: Field Experimental Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit Study

Amanda Y. Agan, Cornell University and NBER
Bo Cowgill, Columbia University
Laura K. Gee, Tufts University
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am

Design of Lotteries and Waitlists for Affordable Housing Allocation

Nick Arnosti, University of Minnesota
Peng Shi, University of Southern California
11:45 am

Targeting In-Kind Transfers Through Market Design: A Revealed Preference Analysis of Public Housing Allocation

Daniel C. Waldinger, New York University and NBER
12:30 pm
Adjourn

FORMAT
35 mins presenter
10 mins discussion