Market Design Working Group Meeting

Michael Ostrovsky and Parag A. Pathak, Organizers

October 18-19, 2024

Format: 35 minute presentation, followed by 10 minute discussion.

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, October 18
9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
9:30 am
Ingrid Huitfeldt, University of Oslo
Victoria Marone, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Daniel C. Waldinger, New York University and NBER

Designing Dynamic Reassignment Mechanisms: Evidence from GP Allocation
10:15 am
Kirk C. Bansak, University of California, Berkeley
Soonbong Lee, Yale University
Vahideh Manshadi, Yale University
Rad Niazadeh, University of Chicago
Elisabeth Paulson, Harvard University

Dynamic Matching with Post-allocation Service and its Application to Refugee Resettlement
11:00 am
Break
11:30 am
Laura Doval, Columbia University
Federico Echenique, University of California, Berkeley
Wanying Huang, Monash University
Yi Xin, California Institute of Technology

Social Learning in Lung Transplant Decisions
12:15 pm
Kurt R. Sweat, Johns Hopkins University

Endogenous Priority in Centralized Matching Markets: The Design of the Heart Transplant Waitlist
1:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
E. Jason Baron, Duke University and NBER
Richard Lombardo, Harvard University
Joseph P. Ryan, University of Michigan
Jeongsoo Suh, Duke University
Quitze Valenzuela-Stookey, University of California, Berkeley

Mechanism Reform: An Application to Child Welfare
2:45 pm
Simon Jantschgi, University of Oxford
Thanh T. Nguyen, Purdue University
Alexander Teytelboym, University of Oxford

The Competitive Core of Combinatorial Exchange
3:30 pm
Break
4:00 pm
Raymond Deneckere, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Daniel Quint, University of Wisconsin - Madison

"Bid Shopping" in Procurement Auctions with Subcontracting (slides)
4:45 pm
Martino Banchio, Bocconi University
Aranyak Mehta, Google Research
Andres Perlroth, Google Research

Ads in Conversations: Market Thickness and Match Quality (slides)
5:30 pm
Adjourn
7:00 pm
Group Dinner
Il Fornaio Palo Alto, 520 Cowper Street, Palo Alto, CA
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Saturday, October 19
Break
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Shunto J. Kobayashi, Boston University
Miguel Alcobendas, Yahoo Research

Dynamic Auctions with Budget-Constrained Bidders: Evidence from the Online Advertising Market
9:45 am
Chuan Yu, Harvard University

The Welfare Effects of Sponsored Product Advertising
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am
Sarah Johnston, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Yifei Liu, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Chenyu Yang, University of Maryland

An Empirical Analysis of the Interconnection Queue
11:45 am
Chenkai Yu, Columbia University
Hongyao Ma, Columbia University

Iterative Network Pricing for Ridesharing Platforms
12:30 pm
Lunch and Adjourn