Sunday, June 8, 2014

NBER Market Design conference at Stanford, June 8-9, 2014

Here's the program:


NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Market Design Working Group Meeting
Susan Athey and Parag Pathak, Organizers
June 8-9, 2014
Sheraton Palo Alto
Sequoia/Oak Room
625 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA

PROGRAM

Sunday, June 8:

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

Haluk Ergin, Duke University
Tayfun Sonmez, Boston College
Utku Unver, Boston College
Living-Donor Lobar Liver/Lung Exchange

9:45 am
Yeon-Koo Che, Columbia University
Jinwoo Kim, Seoul National University
Fuhito Kojima, Stanford University
Stable Matching in Large Economies

10:30 am
Break

11:00 am
Nicolas Lambert, Stanford University
Michael Ostrovsky, Stanford University, Google, and NBER
Mikhail Panov, Stanford University
Strategic Trading in Informationally Complex Environments 

11:45 am
Nima Haghpanah, Northwestern University
Jason Hartline, Northwestern University
Reverse Mechanism Design

12:30 pm
Lunch

2:00 pm
Umut Dur, North Carolina State University
Scott Duke Kominers, Harvard University
Parag PathakMassachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Tayfun Sonmez, Boston College
The Demise of Walk Zones in Boston: Priorities vs. Precedence in School Choice

2:45 pm
Nikhil Agarwal, Yale University and NBER
Paulo SomainiMassachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Identification and Estimation in Manipulable Assignment Mechanisms

3:30 pm

Break

4:00 pm

Paul Milgrom, Stanford University
Ilya Segal, Stanford University
Deferred-Acceptance Auctions and Radio Spectrum Reallocation 

4:45 pm
Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER
Denis Nekipelov, University of Virginia
Designing Large Advertising Markets When Agents Have Heterogeneous Objectives
5:30 pm
Adjourn

7:00 pm

Dinner at Il Fornaio
520 Cowper Street, Palo Alto


Monday, June 9:
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast

9:00 am
Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER
Chiara Farronato, Stanford University
Jonathan Levin, Stanford University and NBER
Neel SundaresaneBay Research Labs
Sales Mechanisms in Online Markets: What Happened to Internet Auctions?

9:45 am

Lawrence Ausubel, University of Maryland
Oleg Baranov, University of Colorado Boulder
Revealed Preference in Bidding: Empirical Evidence from Recent Spectrum Auctions

10:30 am
Break

11:00 am
11:45 am
Eric Budish, University of Chicago
Judd Kessler, University of Pennsylvania
Changing the Course Allocation Mechanism at Wharton
12:30 pm
Joint ACM EC and NBER Lunch

2:00 pm
A Joint Session for EC, NBER and Decentralization on CS and Economics

Organized by the Events Chairs: 

Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER
Moshe Babaioff, Microsoft
Vincent Conitzer, Duke University
David Easley, Cornell University
Fuhito Kojima, Stanford University
Scott Page, University of Michigan
Parag PathakMassachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Invited Speakers, Titles and Links to Abstracts:

Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER The Economics of Crypto-Currencies 
Joaquin Candela, Facebook Machine Learning and the Facebook Ads Auction
Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University Computational Problems for Designed Social Systems
Tim Roughgarden, Stanford University Approximately Optimal Mechanisms Motivation, Examples, and Lessons Learned

5:30 pm
Adjourn

The joint conference, with activities by EC and Decentralization, will continue from Tuesday to Thursday.  On Tuesday morning, EC will have a keynote talk by Matt Jackson, followed by a poster session and EC technical session.  Additional details on the EC Conference, including registration information are available at http://www.sigecom.org/ec14/index.html

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