Duke Economics

Conference Program

(maximum 30 minutes per presentation)

Friday May 7, 2010

MORNING

8:15-9:00          Breakfast at RJ Reynolds Auditorium, Fuqua School

9:00-9:30          Lars Ehlers, University of Montreal: Breaking Ties in School Choice: (Non-) Specialized Schools (with Alexander Westkamp)

9:35-10:05        Jay Sethuraman, Columbia University: An Equivalence Result in School Choice

10:10-10:40       Elena Molis, Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis: Random Paths to Stability in Roommate Markets with Indifferences (jointly with J.  Alcalde-Unzu and E.  Inarra)

Coffee Break

11:00-11:30       Onur Kesten, Carnegie Mellon University: A Theory of School Choice Lotteries (with Utku Unver)

11:35-12:05      Joana Pais, ISEG/Technical University of Lisbon: Preference Intensities and Risk Aversion in School Choice (with Flip Klijn and Marc Vorsatz)

BREAK FOR LUNCH at Thomas Center

2:00-2:30         Guillaume Haeringer, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Knocking out the Supply and Sorting in Centralized Job Markets (with Vincent Iehle and Nuria Rodriguez-Planas)

2:35-3:05           Peter Coles, Harvard Business School: Job Market for New Economics: A Market Design Perspective (with John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, and John J. Siegfried)

Coffee Break

3:25-3:55           David Cantala, El Colegio de Mexico: Markovian Assignment Rules (with Francis Bloch)

4:00-4:30            Federico Echenique, CalTech: Aggregate Matching (with SangMok Lee and Matt Shum)

Coffee Break

4:50-5:20             Szilvia Papai, Concordia University: Matching with Minimal Priority Rights

5:25-5:55              Bettina Klaus, University of Lausanne: Allocation via Deferred Acceptance under Responsive Priorities (with Lars Ehlers)

DINNER at 7:30 at Revolution,

Shuttle to the restaurant from the hotel at 7:00pm

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Saturday, May 8, 2010

MORNING

8:15-9:00          Breakfast at RJ Reynolds Auditorium, Fuqua School

9:00-9:30          Ozgur Yilmaz, Koc University: Paired kidney donation and listed exchange

9:35-10:05       Herve Moulin, Rice University: Clearing supply and demand under bilateral constraints (with Olivier Bochet and Rahmi Ilkilic)

Coffee Break

10:30-11:00      Fuhito Kojima, Stanford University: Matching with Couples: Stability and Incentives in Large Markets (with Parag Pathak and Alvin E. Roth)

11:05-11:35       Marek Pycia, UCLA: Stability and Preference Alignment in Matching and Coalition Formation

11:40-12:10      Jordi Masso, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: On the Invariance of the Set of Core Matchings with Respect to Preference Profiles (with Ruth Martinez, Alejandro Neme, and Jorge Oviedo)

BREAK FOR LUNCH at Thomas Center

2:00-2:30         Clayton Featherstone, Stanford University: Stability and Deferred Acceptance: Strategic Behavior (with Eric Mayfesky)

2:35-3:05          Leeat Yariv, Cal Tech: An Experimental Study of Decentralized Matching (with Federico Echenique)

3:10-3:40        Morimitsu Kurino, Max Planck Institute of Economics: The Probabilistic Serial Assignment Mechanism (with Onur Kesten and Utku Unver)

Coffee Break

4:10-4:40            Michael Schwarz, Yahoo! Research: Interviewing in Two-sided Matching Markets (with Robin Lee)

4:45-5:15            Marilda Sotomayor, Universidade de São Paulo: TBA

RECEPTION at 6:45pm at the Washington Duke Inn

DINNER at 7:30pm at the Washington Duke Inn

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Sunday, May 9, 2010

MORNING

8:15-9:00          Breakfast at RJ Reynolds Auditorium, Fuqua School

9:00-9:30          Muriel Niederle, Stanford University: Decentralized Matching with Aligned Preferences (with Leeat Yariv)

9:35-10:05        Flip Klijn, Institute for Economic Analysis, Barcelona: Farsighted House Allocation (with Bettina Klaus and Markus Walzl) 

10:10-10:40      Eric Budish, Chicago Business School: The Multi-unit Assignment Problem: Theory and Evidence from Course Allocation at Harvard (with Estelle Cantillon)

Coffee Break

11:00-11:30       John W. Hatfield, Stanford Business School: Matching in Networks with Bilateral Contracts (with Scott D. Kominers)

11:35-12:05      Michael Ostrovsky, Stanford Business School: Stability and Competitive Equilibrium in Trading Networks (with John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor and Alexander Westkamp)

CONFERENCE ADJOURNS