An informal page to share announcements (e.g., papers, conferences, applied work, jobs) relevant to the market design community. Administered by
@d_delacretaz
.
If you missed the 2023 NBER Market Design Working Group Meeting or want to watch it again, all talks are available on YouTube📺
First day (Oct 27):
Second day (Oct 28):
Seven years after Sönmez & Switzer (2013) and Sönmez (2013) were published, the proposed mechanism for cadet-branching matching has been adopted and will be used for the Class of 2021!
#EconTwitter
#MarketDesign
#Impact
Only one week to go until this great event organized by
@UTokyoMD
. Four lectures over four days to learn everything you need to know about markets with indivisible goods. All free, all online:
@fkojima79
@t8el
@ElizBaldwin
🚨MATCH-UP, your favourite workshop on matching markets, is back and taking place in Oxford🇬🇧 9-11 September! 🗓️Submission deadline: 1 May; notification: 1 July; early reg: 15 July. 50 amazing researchers on the program committee!😃 All info:
The program for the Fall 2023 NBER Market Design Working Group Meeting is out! The workshop will take place on October 27-28 in Cambridge 🇺🇸. All info:
🚨There's a new online seminar in town🚨
The Frontiers of Economic Design (FED) seminar is organized by B. Yenmez and L. Ehlers. It will take place every two weeks on Friday 12pm Eastern (5pm London), starting on May 20 with A. Roth and E. Muir🗓️More info:
Not The 2022 Theory Job Market is back this year and starts today (Jan 10)!
See nine of this year's best theory job market candidates in action over the next three weeks.
Schedule below and all details here:
@modibokhane
@e_demagistris
With so many market design (or adjacent) workshops coming up between May and July, it would be easy to get lost. Here is the schedule and a🧵outlining each one.
There is an excellent microeconomics seminar series going on at
@BilkentEconDept
. Talks take place every Monday and anyone can join over Zoom. Check out the line-up below.
#EconTwitter
🎉This page is one year old today!🎉 Thank you to everyone who has contributed, please continue to share your market design related content by tagging it or sending a private message. And please share any feedback you have on how it could be improved in year 2.
🚨Job Alert!🚨
3-year Market Design postdoc opportunity in
@OxfordEconDept
! See below for more details, contact
@t8el
if you have any questions, and apply by Monday 7 December (12pm UK time):
#EconTwitter
Online seminars have of course slowed down with the return of in-person events; however, many are still running. Here's a short 🧵about those that I used to advertise weekly and that are back in action this term. 👇 👇👇
The
@nberpubs
workshop New Directions in Market Design is taking place today and tomorrow (May 11-12) in Washington DC. All talks are streamed live on youtube:
Here is the program for today (May 11, all times are Eastern).
Lost in the large number of online seminars? Here's an update. There are three seminar series devoted to market design:
Virtual Market Design Seminar [
@VMDSeminar
]
Auction and Market Design Seminar []
Zurich Market Design Seminar []
The Economic Design Summer School will be on June 8 in Padova 🇮🇹, the day before the Economic Design Conference. Featuring
@TommyAn53041153
, B. Klaus, O. Tercieux, R. Velez about Ethical Resource Allocations. Attendance is free, contact
@RiccardoSaulle
if you are interested. 👇👇
This is incredibly sad news for our community. Our condolences to his loved ones. Konrad was a brilliant economist and had done a lot of path-breaking work on auctions.
My colleague Konrad Mierendorff died on Saturday August 7th 2021 after a fall on the
#Wasenhorn
, Switzerland. Konrad was a gifted Economist, both as a researcher and a teacher. He loved the mountains and was on his own journey into Alpine climbing. 1/5
The main program of
@AcmSIGecom
's
#AcmEC20
starts today! Below the 12 sessions related to mechanism design, matching and market design. All times are Eastern (New York).
#EconTwitter
Full program:
This has to be some sort of record... 🧐 Five matching papers in this month's issue of Games and Economic Behavior! 😀 More detail on Al Roth's blog:
@DorotheaKuebler
@bertanturhan
Very interesting non-technical article by
@pcramton
, Axel Ockenfels, Al Roth, and Robert Wilson in
@nature
about how
#MarketDesign
can be used to alleviate a shortage of medical supplies in a crisis. Thanks to
@t8el
for sharing it!
#Econtwitter
A call to all market design job market candidates: make sure you submit to be on the SIGecom job market candidate profiles by Sep 23. This is a great way to advertise yourself to potential employers. 👇👇👇
Submissions for this year’s SIGecom job market candidate profiles (for both postdoc and faculty positions) are now open. Interested candidates should submit the form by 9/23: . Then, by 9/30 submit the profile, using the template files provided in the form.
Online seminars are back this week! We have five talks by Omer Tamuz in the Seminars in Economics Theory, Kate Larson and Ernesto Savaglio in the Social Choice Seminar, Mariagiovanna Baccara in
@CETC_Econ
, and
@Pmilgrom
in the Auction and Market Design Seminar.
#EconTwitter
Can we increase the number of organs for transplant?
Alvin Roth, who turns 70 tomorrow, has been applying economics to organ transplants. In a kidney exchange a donor starts a chain by donating a kidney to a patient. In turn a friend of the patient donates to someone else.
Interested in market design but not sure where to start? Watch this interview of Al Roth by students from Rajk College in Budapest about what market designers do and the problems they study.
#EconTwitter
🧑🏫The third
@UTokyoMD
🇯🇵 conference is taking place online on Tuesday Mar 15 at 9am Japan time🕘 (Mon Mar 14 8pm Eastern🕗, Tue Mar 15 midnight London🕛). It consists of three one-hour talks. Signing up is free and easy here:
Despite the return of most in-person events, many online seminars are here to stay. Here is a short🧵 with the most interesting ones for market designers. Please add anything I’ve missed.
There will be a daily market design session at the
@ASSAMeeting
😀 Program:
Friday, Jan 6: Matching Markets
Saturday, Jan 7: Contracts and Markets: New Developments
Sunday, Jan 8: Data and Market Design
Over the next twelve days (Nov 1-12), we will introduce one Market Design Job Market Candidate per day (in random order). All twelve candidates can be found in the Market Design JMC Profiles 2023, which are available here: .
#EconTwitter
#EconJMC
VIBES is back!! Today: Shengwu Li (Harvard University) "A Theory of Ex Post Rationalization" (with Erik Eyster and Sarah Ridout) Join us at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels!
@ShengwuLi
@NunnariSalvo
Whether you're sending applications or sorting through those you've received, there are five seminars this week to take the edge off:
@ShengwuLi
in
@VMDSeminar
, Michael Woodford in VIBES,
@akbarpour_
in AMETS, Marek Pycia in SET, and Nicolas Lambert in
@VSET_contact
.
#EconTwitter
The (preliminary) program for the 17th meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare (SSCW 2024, Paris, July 2-6) is out! As usual, there will be many market design sessions 😃 More info:
Looking for market design and micro theory seminars to attend this week? You've come to the right tweet! We have H.C. Thysen and
@DGoncalvesDS
in Not the 2021 Theory Market, F. Dietrich and S. Horan in Social Choice,
@gjgeorgiadis
in
@CETC_Econ
, and
@EvaTardos
in AMD
#EconTwitter
Tomorrow's
@INFORMS
Auction and Market Design seminar (1-2pm Eastern) will feature the three laureates of the Michael H. Rothkopf Junior Researcher Paper Prize:
@YannaiGonch
, Irene Lo, and Scott Rodilitz.
#EconTwitter
A lot of market design this week on both sides of the Atlantic! 🤩 CMID in Budapest 🇭🇺 July 8-12 and EC'24 in New Heaven 🇺🇸 July 8-11. Way too many great sessions to list in a tweet so check out the programs 👇
CMID:
EC:
🗓️Save The Date!🗓️
The 4th
@INFORMS
Market Design Workshop will take place on July 15, as part of
@AcmSIGecom
's
#EC22
. The submission deadline is June 1. All info here:
@t8el
There's a new theory seminar in town! It will take place on Wednesdays at 10am Eastern (7am Pacific, 3pm London). The first speaker tomorrow (July 15) is Philipp Strack (Yale). To sign up:
The program for the NBER Market Design Working Group Meeting is out! The workshop will be held online, with 12 talks over 3 days on October 22-24.
@nberpubs
#EconTwitter
Five great talks scheduled for the coming week. We have
@ElliotLip
in the Econ Theory Seminars, Yakov Babichenko in
@CaltechEconThry
, Hans Peters and Marcus Pivato in the Social Choice Seminar, and Luis Rayo in
@PennTheoN
.
#EconTwitter
🚨If you work on market design and are on the job market this year, add yourself to the list by Nov 19!🚨 This page will promote each candidate to maximize exposure to recruiters.
Link:
More info: 👇👇👇
Following up on previous years' compilations of Market Design job-market profiles,
@AssafRomm
@RanShorrer
and I are compiling an edition for this job market.
Last year, in early October, we sent out a call to job market candidates to submit their profiles to our annual list,
👫 Auction Theory for Kids 👫
A new booklet for curious children
Joint work with my daughter, Adva Feldman.
Thank you Adva for the beautiful illustrations!
A pdf version:
There will be a matching and market design conference in Marseille 🇫🇷 on Dec 11-15: "From matchings to markets. A tale of Mathematics, Economics and Computer Science."
Applications are open and applications from Ph.D. students are welcome. All info:
The 2020 NBER Market Design working group meeting will take place next week, October 22-24, live streamed at . Don't miss your chance to see the latest Nobel Prize winner "in action" (see the program at for details)!
EC21 (
@AcmSIGecom
) has added Econometrica (
@ecmaEditors
) to the list of journals to which reviews of accepted papers can be forwarded! Other economics journals include
@RevEconStud
, JET, GEB, and RAND. The deadline is Feb 10, see the call for papers here:
Two recent rulings by the Indian Supreme Court on the country's university admission system are in line with proposals formulated in papers by T. Sönmez, M. B. Yenmez,
@inaciog
,
@orhanaygun_boun
, and
@bertanturhan
. More info in this article:
#EconTwitter
The 2021
@nberpubs
Market Design Working Group Meeting organized by
@mostrovs
and
@prof_parag
will take place on October 21-23. It will be held on Zoom, at Stanford, or in a hybrid mode depending on the situation. Submit your paper paper by August 15:
There will be a LOT of market design at
#SAET2021
with two rooms at every parallel session😀 Checkout the schedule below, more info on the conference website:
6⃣ talks on the agenda this week: Marzena Rostek in
@VMDSeminar
,
@lauradoval
in Seminars in Economic Theory, Eric Mbakop in
@CaltechEconThry
, Rahul Deb in
@VSET_contact
, and Rida Laraki and Bill Zwicker in International Seminar Series on Social Choice 👇👇👇
No seminar announcement this week as all series are paused until at least mid-January. Instead, let me take this opportunity to wish you all happy holidays! Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this page, looking forward to developing it further in 2021.
#EconTwitter
🧑🏫This weeks' online seminar series will feature M.Elliott in
@VMDSeminar
, A. Brandenburger in the SET [], A. Sanktjohanser in
@VSET_contact
, and N. Hagpanah in
@CETC_Econ
. Full 🗓️👇👇👇
⚠️ Daylight saving started in 🇺🇸🇨🇦, affected times are in red ⚠️
Online seminars are starting to pick up again as we enter October! There are 6⃣ talks this week with Ran Spiegler in VIBES, Rahul Deb in AMETS, Sarah Auster in SET, Julia Salmi in
@VSET_contact
, Gérard Cachon in AMD, and Dan Quigley in
@CETC_Econ
. Full schedule 👇👇👇