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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Market Design Working Group Meeting

Susan Athey and Parag Pathak, Organizers

October 28-29, 2011

NBER
2^nd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Friday, October 28
8:15 am	Shuttles leave Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
8:55 am	Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 am	Matching with Contracts
	Tayfun Sonmez, Boston College Tobias Switzer, US Air Force Matching with (Branch-of-Choice) Contracts at United States Military Academy
	John Hatfield, Stanford University Scott Duke Kominers, University of Chicago Multilateral Matching
10:30 am	Break
10:45 am	Strategy-Proofness and Efficiency in Complex Design Problems
	Eduardo Azevedo, Harvard University Eric Budish, University of Chicago Strategyproofness in the Large as a Desideratum for Market Design
	Clayton Featherstone, Harvard University A Rank-Based Refinement of Ordinal Efficiency and a New (but Familiar) Class of Ordinal Assignment Mechanisms
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Information and Price Discovery
	Haoxiang Zhu, Stanford University Do Dark Pools Harm Price Discovery?
	Mark Satterthwaite, Northwestern University Steven Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Konstantinos Zachariadis, London School of Economics Price Discovery
	Steven Tadelis, UC, Berkeley and eBay Research Labs
	Florian Zettelmeyer, Northwestern University and NBER
	Information Disclosure as a Matching Mechanism: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment
3:30 pm	Break
3:45 pm	Kidney Exchange
	Tayfun Sonmez, Boston College Utku Unver, Boston College Altruistically Unbalanced Kidney Exchange
	Itai Ashlagi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology David Gamarnik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alvin Roth, Harvard University and NBER The Need for (long) Chains in Kidney Exchange
5:15 pm	Adjourn
5:20 pm	Shuttles leave NBER for Royal Sonesta Hotel
6:00 pm	Dinner Bambara Restaurant 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Saturday, October 29
8:15 am	Shuttles leave Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Online Markets
	Susan Athey, Harvard University and NBER Ittai Abraham, Microsoft Research Moshe Babaioff, Microsoft Research Michael Grubb, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Peaches, Lemons, and Cookies: Designing Auction Markets with Dispersed Information
	Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER Theresa Kuchler, Stanford University Jonathan Levin, Stanford University and NBER Neel Sundaresan, eBay Research Labs Learning from Seller Experiments in Online Markets
10:30 am	Break
10:45 am	User Interfaces and User Generated Content
	Arpita Ghosh, Yahoo! Research Preston McAfee, Yahoo! Research Incentivizing High-Quality User-Generated Content
	Sven Seuken, University of Zurich David Parkes, Harvard University Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research Kamal Jain, eBay Research Labs Mary Czerwinski, Microsoft Research Desney Tan, Microsoft Research Market User Interface Design
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	School Choice and Student Assignment
	Fuhito Kojima, Stanford University John Hatfield, Stanford University Yusuke Narita, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Promoting School Competition Through School Choice: A Market Design Approach
	Yan Chen, University of Michigan Onur Kesten, Carnegie Mellon University From Boston to Shanghai to Deferred Acceptance: Theory and Experiments on A Family of School Choice Mechanisms
2:45 pm	Adjourn
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	Format: Authors should plan to speak for about 30-35 minutes.