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Market Design Working Group Meeting
Organized by Eric Budish and Michael Ostrovsky
Supported by
Microsoft
October 16-17, 2026
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Vidalakis Dining Hall, 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA
Format: 35 minutes for the presentation, 10 minutes for discussion.
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Friday, October 16
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8:00 am
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Continental Breakfast
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9:00 am
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Personalized Recommendations Without Inducing Congestion: Mitigating Disparities in the NYC High School Match
Erica Chiang, Cornell University
Nikhil Garg, Cornell University
Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
Rebecca Lichtenstein, New York City Public Schools
Brielle McDaniel, New York City Public Schools
Kristen O’Neil, New York City Public Schools
Kenny Peng, Cornell University
Eva Tardos, Cornell University
Dejaunique Thomas, New York City Public Schools
Lianna Wright, New York City Public Schools
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9:45 am
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Who Gets What in Education: Can School Matching Improve Student Achievement?
Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Duke University and NBER
Parag A. Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Christopher R. Walters, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
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10:30 am
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Break
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11:00 am
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Searchable Menus
Piotr Dworczak, Northwestern University
Frank Yang, Stanford University
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11:45 am
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Two-Sided Matching with Partial Participation
Avinatan Hassidim, Bar-Ilan University
Assaf Romm, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ran Shorrer, The Pennsylvania State University
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12:30 pm
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Lunch and Conversation with Al Roth about his
latest book, "Moral Economics"
with Canice Prendergast as Moderator
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2:30 pm
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Clearing Multi-Unit Markets with Simple Pricing
Ali Makhdoumi, Duke University
Saša Pekeč, Duke University
Xinchang Wang, Duke University
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3:15 pm
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Quota Marketplace: Dynamic Pricing for Efficient Allocation of ML Training Resources
Vasilis Gkatzelis, Drexel University
Renato Paes Leme, Google Research
Ian McFarlane, Google Research
Nehal Mehta, Google Research
Vahab Mirrokni, Google Research
Balasubramanian Sivan, Google Research
Mihai Tiuca, Google Research
Amin Vahdat, Google Research
Soheil Hassas Yeganeh, Google Research
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4:00 pm
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Break
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4:30 pm
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One-Shot Pricing for Hands-Off-the-Wheel Advertising Markets
(slides)
Emerson Melo, Indiana University
Matthew Shum, California Institute of Technology
Rakesh Vohra, University of Pennsylvania
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5:15 pm
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Paying for Information, Not for Clicks: A Block-Level Publisher Content Marketplace for AI Answers
Markus Mobius, Microsoft Research
Luca Braghieri, Bocconi University
Sarah Eichmeyer, Bocconi University
Daniel G. Goldstein, Microsoft Research
Nicole Immorlica, Microsoft Research
Oliver Kiss, Spreadmonitor
Ro’ee Levy, Tel Aviv University
Brendan Lucier, Microsoft Research
Ishan Mahajan, Microsoft Research
Jingyi Qiu, University of Michigan School of Information
Tanya Rosenblat, University of Michigan
David Rothschild, Microsoft Research
Andras Sari, Central European University
Aleksandrs Slivkins, Microsoft Research
Colin Watson, Microsoft Research
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6:00 pm
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Adjourn
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6:30 pm
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Group Dinner at Tamarine Restaurant, 546 University Avenue, Palo Alto
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Saturday, October 17
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8:00 am
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Continental Breakfast
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9:00 am
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Screening for Usage
Justin Hadad, Stanford University
Kyle Woodward, Assign Group
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9:45 am
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Pricing the Right to Renege in Search Markets: Evidence from Trucking
Richard Faltings, University of California, San Diego
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10:30 am
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Break
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11:00 am
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Competition and Welfare in Airport Slot Allocation
Sebastian D. Bauer, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
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11:45 am
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Road Pricing under Heterogeneity
(slides)
Itai Ater, Tel Aviv University
Brad Ross, University of Pennsylvania
Adi Shany, Tel Aviv University
Shoshana Vasserman, Stanford University and NBER
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12:30 pm
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Boxed Lunch and Adjourn
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