Market Design Working Group Meeting
Michael Ostrovsky and Parag A. Pathak, Organizers
October 22-24, 2020
| Thursday, October 22 | ||
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FORMAT: 40 minutes for the presenter + 5 minutes for questions. |
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| 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 |
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| 12:45 pm |
Parag A. Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Tayfun Sönmez, Boston College M. Utku Ünver, Boston College M. Bumin Yenmez, Boston College Fair Allocation of Vaccines, Ventilators and Antiviral Treatments: Leaving No Ethical Value Behind in Health Care Rationing |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 2:45 pm |
David Delacretaz, University of Manchester Processing Reserves Simultaneously |
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| 3:30 pm | Open Discussions | |
| 4:00 pm | Adjourn | |
| Saturday, October 24 | ||
| 12:00 pm |
Federico Echenique, California Institute of Technology Antonio Miralles, Universita' degli Studi di Messina Jun Zhang, Nanjing Audit University Constrained Pseudo-Market Equilibrium |
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| 12:45 pm |
Marzena Rostek, University of Wisconsin-Madison Ji Hee Yoon, University College London Exchange Design and Efficiency |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 3:30 pm | Open Discussions | |
| 4:00 pm | Adjourn | |