Market Design Working Group Meeting

Michael Ostrovsky and Parag A. Pathak, Organizers

October 20-21, 2017

Cambridge

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, October 20
8:15 am
Coach Bus leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

Efficient and Incentive Compatible Liver Exchange (slides)
9:45 am

An Empirical Framework for Sequential Assignments: The Allocation of Deceased Donor Kidneys
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am

Will the Market Fix the Market? A Theory of Stock Market Competition and Innovation
11:45 am

Toward a Fully Continuous Exchange
12:30 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm

Deferred-Acceptance Clock Auctions and Radio Spectrum Reallocation (slides)
2:45 pm

Market Design and the FCC Incentive Auction
3:30 pm

Ownership Concentration and Strategic Supply Reduction
4:15 pm
Break
New Directions: Transportation and Market Design
4:30 pm

Carpooling and the Economics of Self-Driving Cars
5:00 pm

Markets for Road Use: Eliminating Congestion through Scheduling, Routing, and Real-Time Road Pricing
5:30 pm

Surge Pricing Solves the Wild Goose Chase (slides)
6:00 pm
Adjourn
6:10 pm
Coach Bus leaves NBER for Royal Sonesta Hotel
7:00 pm
Group Dinner
Dante Restaurant at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Saturday, October 21
8:15 am
Coach Bus leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

How Well Do Structural Demand Models Work? Counterfactual Predictions in School Choice
9:45 am

Strategic `Mistakes': Implications for Market Design Research
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am

The Cutoff Structure of Top Trading Cycles in School Choice
11:45 am

Mechanism Selection and Trade Formation on Swap Execution Facilities: Evidence from Index CDS
12:30 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm

Does Information Revelation Improve Revenue? (slides)
2:45 pm

Information and Market Power
3:30 pm
Break
New Directions: Development Economics and Market Design
4:00 pm

Using Market Mechanisms to Increase the Take-up of Improved Sanitation in Senegal (slides)
4:30 pm

Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in the Field
5:00 pm

Experimental Design as Market Design: Billions of Dollars Worth of Treatment Assignments
5:30 pm
Adjourn