Market Design Working Group Meeting
Organized by Michael Ostrovsky and Parag A. Pathak
Supported by Microsoft
October 18-19, 2024
SIEPR, Stanford University, Koret-Taube Conference Center, 366 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA
Format: 35 minute presentation, followed by 10 minute discussion.
Friday, October 18
9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
9:30 am

Designing Dynamic Reassignment Mechanisms: Evidence from GP Allocation

Ingrid Huitfeldt, University of Oslo
Victoria Marone, Yale University and NBER
Daniel C. Waldinger, New York University and NBER
10:15 am

Dynamic Matching with Post-allocation Service and its Application to Refugee Resettlement

Kirk C. Bansak, University of California, Berkeley
Soonbong Lee, Yale University
Vahideh Manshadi, Yale University
Rad Niazadeh, University of Chicago
Elisabeth Paulson, Harvard University
11:00 am
Break
11:30 am

Social Learning in Lung Transplant Decisions

Laura Doval, Columbia University
Federico Echenique, University of California, Berkeley
Wanying Huang, Monash University
Yi Xin, California Institute of Technology
12:15 pm

Endogenous Priority in Centralized Matching Markets: The Design of the Heart Transplant Waitlist

Kurt R. Sweat, Johns Hopkins University
1:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm

Mechanism Reform: An Application to Child Welfare

E. Jason Baron, Duke University and NBER
Richard Lombardo, Harvard University
Joseph P. Ryan, University of Michigan
Jeongsoo Suh, Duke University
Quitze Valenzuela-Stookey, University of California, Berkeley
2:45 pm

The Competitive Core of Combinatorial Exchange

Simon Jantschgi, University of Oxford
Thanh T. Nguyen, Purdue University
Alexander Teytelboym, University of Oxford
3:30 pm
Break
4:00 pm

"Bid Shopping" in Procurement Auctions with Subcontracting (slides)

Raymond Deneckere, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Daniel Quint, University of Wisconsin - Madison
4:45 pm

Ads in Conversations: Market Thickness and Match Quality (slides)

Martino Banchio, Bocconi University
Aranyak Mehta, Google Research
Andres Perlroth, Google Research
5:30 pm
Adjourn
7:00 pm
Group Dinner
Il Fornaio Palo Alto, 520 Cowper Street, Palo Alto, CA
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Saturday, October 19
Break
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

Dynamic Auctions with Budget-Constrained Bidders: Evidence from the Online Advertising Market

Shunto J. Kobayashi, Boston University
Miguel Alcobendas, Yahoo Research
9:45 am

The Welfare Effects of Sponsored Product Advertising

Chuan Yu, Harvard University
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am

An Empirical Analysis of the Interconnection Queue

Sarah Johnston, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Yifei Liu, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Chenyu Yang, University of Maryland, College Park
11:45 am

Iterative Network Pricing for Ridesharing Platforms

Chenkai Yu, Columbia University
Hongyao Ma, Columbia University
12:30 pm
Lunch and Adjourn