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Market Design Working Group Meeting
Organized by Eric Budish and Michael Ostrovsky
October 16-17, 2026
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Vidalakis Room, 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
Kenny Peng, Cornell University
Rebecca Lichtenstein, New York City Public Schools
Brielle McDaniel, New York City Public Schools
Kristen O'Neil, New York City Public Schools
Dejaunique Thomas, New York City Public Schools
Lianna Wright, New York City Public Schools
Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
Eva Tardos, Cornell University
Nikhil Garg, Cornell University
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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
Frank Yang, Stanford University
Piotr Dworczak, Northwestern University
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11:45 am
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Two-Sided Matching with Partial Participation
Assaf Romm, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ran Shorrer, The Pennsylvania State University
Avinatan Hassidim, Bar-Ilan University
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12:30 pm
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Lunch and Conversation with Al Roth about his
latest book, "Moral Economics"
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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
Renato Paes Leme, Google Research
Balasubramanian Sivan, Google Research
Mihai Tiuca, Google Research
Ian McFarlane, Google Research
Vasilis Gkatzelis, Drexel University
Nehal Mehta, Google Research
Soheil Hassas Yeganeh, Google Research
Vahab Mirrokni, Google Research
Amin Vahdat, 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
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, University of Michigan
Andras Sari, Central European University
Tanya Rosenblat, University of Michigan
David M. Rothschild, Microsoft Research
Brendan Lucier, Microsoft Research
Nicole Immorlica, Yale University
Oliver Kiss, Spreadmonitor
Jingyi Qiu, University of Michigan School of Information
Colin Watson, Microsoft Research
Ishan Mahajan, 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, University of Oxford
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
Shoshana Vasserman, Stanford University and NBER
Brad Ross, University of Pennsylvania
Adi Shany, Tel Aviv University
Itai Ater, Tel Aviv University
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12:30 pm
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Boxed Lunch and Adjourn
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