Tomorrow is the conference for which I traveled to England, here's the announcement:
Economic Design: The Economist as an Engineer 14-15 July 2015
Al Roth, winner of the Nobel Prize 2012 in Economics, will receive an honourable doctorate from the University of Exeter. The Department of Economics with funding from the South West Doctoral Training Centre (SWDTC) and the University of Exeter Business School is proud to host a workshop in honour of Al Roth and his contribution to market design.
How to bring different parties together in the best possible way is a key economic problem. Examples of situations where this problem arises include matching children with different schools, interns with internships, and kidneys or other organs with patients who require transplants. The two-day workshop will focus on applying economic theory to solutions for "real-world" problems.
Speakers
Name | Institution | Paper |
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Alvin Roth | Stanford University | "Who Gets What and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design" and "Kidney exchange" |
Vincent Crawford | University of Oxford | Efficient Mechanisms for Level-k Bilateral Trading |
Bradley Ruffle | Wilfrid Laurier University | Waiting to Cooperate? Cooperation in one-stage and two-stage games |
Joana Pais | University of Lisbon | Affirmative action through minority reserves: An experimental study |
Surajeet Chakravarty | University of Exeter | Communicating with an ignorant agent |
Burak Can | Maastricht University | Comparing Orders, Rankings, Queues, Tournaments and Lists |
Dorothea Kuebler | WZB Berlin | College Admissions with Entrance Exams: Centralized versus Decentralized |
Luke Lindsay | University of Exeter | How to organise a conference: A market design approach |
Dirk Engelmann | Humboldt University | Does a Buyer Benefit from Bad Reputation? Theory and Experiments on Auctions with Default |
Elizabeth Baldwin | LSE | Understanding Preferences: "Demand Types", and the Existence of Equilibrium with Indivisibilities |
As part of the workshop Al Roth will present a public talk, details below:
Who Gets What and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market DesignTuesday 14th July at 2pm – 3.30pm
Streatham Court A
Streatham Court A
Please register your attendance online – REGISTER HERE
Workshop programme
Download the programme here: Economic Design: The Economist as an Engineer - Workshop Programme