Market Design Working Group Meeting
Nikhil Agarwal and Dirk Bergemann, Organizers
October 27-28, 2023
Format: Authors will be given the full 45 minutes of each session, with questions during the presentation.
| Friday, October 27 | ||
| 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast | |
| Session 1: Equity | ||
| 9:00 am |
Diego Gentile Passaro, Amazon Pharmacy Fuhito Kojima, Stanford University Bobak Pakzad-Hurson, Brown University Equal Pay for Similar Work |
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| 9:45 am |
Tayfun Sönmez, Boston College M. Utku Ünver, Boston College Market Design for Social Justice: A Case Study on A Constitutional Crisis in India |
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| 10:30 am | Break | |
| Session 2: Artificial Intelligence | ||
| 10:45 am |
Martino Banchio, Google Research Giacomo Mantegazza, Stanford University Artificial Intelligence and Spontaneous Collusion |
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| 11:30 am |
Nikhil Agarwal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Alex Moehring, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Pranav Rajpurkar, Harvard University Tobias Salz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Combining Human Expertise with Artificial Intelligence: Experimental Evidence from Radiology |
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| 12:15 pm | Lunch - Somerset Room | |
| Session 3: Auctions | ||
| 1:30 pm |
Alexander Haberman, Stanford University Ravi Jagadeesan, Stanford University Auctions with Withdrawal Rights: A Foundation for Uniform Price |
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| 2:15 pm |
Hao Li, University of British Columbia Michael Peters, University of British Columbia Unobserved Auctions |
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| 3:00 pm |
Jason Allen, Bank of Canada Ali Hortaçsu, University of Chicago and NBER Eric Richert, University of Chicago Milena Wittwer, Boston College Entry and Exit in Treasury Auctions |
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| 3:45 pm | Break | |
| Session 4: Mechanism Design for Social Good | ||
| 4:15 pm |
Wouter Dessein, Columbia University Alexander P. Frankel, University of Chicago Navin Kartik, Columbia University Test-Optional Admissions |
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| 5:00 pm |
Nicholas T. Wu, Yale University Nicole Immorlica, Microsoft Research Brendan Lucier, Microsoft Research Maximizing the Effect of Altruism |
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| 5:45 pm | Adjourn | |
| 6:30 pm | Group Dinner at Bambara (across the street from the Royal Sonesta) | |
| Saturday, October 28 | ||
| 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast | |
| Session 5: Distributed Ledgers | ||
| 9:00 am |
Eric Budish, University of Chicago and NBER Trust at Scale: The Economic Limits of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains |
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| 9:45 am |
Jacob D. Leshno, University of Chicago Rafael Pass, Cornell University Elaine Shi, Carnegie Mellon University Can Open Decentralized Ledgers be Economically Secure? |
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| 10:30 am | Break | |
| Session 6: School Choice | ||
| 11:00 am |
Yeon-Koo Che, Columbia University Dong Woo Hahm, University of Southern California YingHua He, Rice University Leveraging Uncertainties to Infer Preferences: Robust Analysis of School Choice |
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| 11:45 am |
Patrick Agte, Yale University Claudia Allende, Stanford University and NBER Adam Kapor, Princeton University and NBER Christopher Neilson, Yale University and NBER Fernando Ochoa, New York University Search and Biased Beliefs in Education Markets |
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch - Somerset Room | |
| Session 7: Signalling and Screening | ||
| 1:30 pm |
Frank Yang, Stanford University Piotr Dworczak, Northwestern University Mohammad Akbarpour, Stanford University Comparison of Screening Devices |
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| 2:15 pm |
Philipp Strack, Yale University Kai Hao Yang, Yale University Privacy Preserving Signals |
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| 3:00 pm | Adjourn | |