Market Design Working Group Meeting

Michael Ostrovsky and Parag A. Pathak, Organizers

October 22-24, 2020

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, October 22
FORMAT: 40 minutes for the presenter + 5 minutes for questions.

12:00 pm
Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER
Arthur Baker, University of Chicago
Juan Camilo Castillo, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Rachel Glennerster, University of Chicago and NBER
Scott Duke Kominers, Harvard University
Michael Kremer, University of Chicago and NBER
Jean Nahrae Lee, World Bank
Christopher Snyder, Dartmouth College and NBER
Alex Tabarrok, George Mason University
Brandon Tan, International Monetary Fund
Witold Wiecek, University of Chicago

Accelerating a Covid-19 Vaccine
12:45 pm
Parag A. Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Tayfun Sönmez, Boston College
M. Utku Ünver, Boston College
M. Bumin Yenmez, Washington University in St Louis

Fair Allocation of Vaccines, Ventilators and Antiviral Treatments: Leaving No Ethical Value Behind in Health Care Rationing (slides)
1:30 pm
Open Discussions
2:00 pm
Xiang Han, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Onur Kesten, University of Sydney
M. Utku Ünver, Boston College

Blood Allocation with Replacement Donors
2:45 pm
Mohammad Akbarpour, Stanford University
Afshin Nikzad, University of Southern California
Michael A. Rees, University of Toledo Medical Center
Alvin E. Roth, Stanford University and NBER

Global Kidney Chains
3:30 pm
Open Discussions
4:00 pm
Adjourn
Friday, October 23
12:00 pm
Yan Chen, University of Michigan
Ming Jiang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Onur Kesten, University of Sydney

An Empirical Evaluation of Chinese College Admissions Reforms Through A Natural Experiment
12:45 pm
Chiaki Moriguchi, Hitotsubashi University
Yusuke Narita, Yale University
Mari Tanaka, University of Tokyo

Meritocracy and Its Discontents: Long-Run Effects of Repeated School Admission Reforms
1:30 pm
Open Discussions
2:00 pm
Adam Kapor, Princeton University and NBER
Mohit Karnani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Christopher Neilson, Yale University and NBER

Aftermarket Frictions and the Cost of Off-Platform Options in Centralized Assignment Mechanisms
2:45 pm
David Delacretaz, University of Manchester

Processing Reserves Simultaneously
3:30 pm
Open Discussions
4:00 pm
Adjourn
Saturday, October 24
12:00 pm
Federico Echenique, University of California, Berkeley
Antonio Miralles, Universita' degli Studi di Messina
Jun Zhang, Nanjing Audit University

Constrained Pseudo-Market Equilibrium
12:45 pm
Marzena Rostek, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Ji Hee Yoon, University College London

Exchange Design and Efficiency
1:30 pm
Open Discussions
2:00 pm
Martin Bichler, Technical University of Munich
Maximilian Fichtl, Technical University of Munich
Stefan Heidekrüger, Technical University of Munich
Nils Kohring, Technical University of Munich
Paul Sutterer, Technical University of Munich

Learning to Bid: Computing Bayesian Nash Equilibrium Strategies in Auctions via Neural Pseudogradient Ascent
2:45 pm
Mohammad Akbarpour, Stanford University
Scott Duke Kominers, Harvard University
Shengwu Li, Harvard University
Paul Milgrom, Stanford University

Investment Incentives in Near-Optimal Mechanisms
3:30 pm
Open Discussions
4:00 pm
Adjourn