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  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games

quality of games is that, thanks to tweaks in the design of postseason matchups, teams at the highest championship level more often find themselves facing their true competitive counterparts. It was not always so. Until 1992, as HBS economist View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports
  • 08 Nov 2010
  • News

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

  • 25 Jun 2009
  • News

Book Review: Match Day by Brian Eule

  • 22 Jul 2010
  • News

Un-Freakonomics

  • 16 Oct 2012
  • News

On Marriage, Kidneys and the Economics Nobel

  • 19 Aug 2011
  • News

NYC Program Means Real Public School Choice for Students

  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

908-068 In this case we look at the design and development of an unconventional market, where neither money nor traditional "goods" are exchanged. Kidney exchange is an idea pioneered by HBS professor and market designer View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 15, 2006
  • Article

Increasing the Opportunity of Live Kidney Donation By Matching for Two and Three Way Exchanges

By: Susan L. Saidman, Alvin E. Roth, Tayfun Sönmez, M. Utku Ünver and Francis L. Delmonico
Keywords: Opportunities; Health
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The Dynamics of Reorganization in Matching Markets: A Laboratory Experiment Motivated by a Natural Experiment

By: John H. Kagel and A. E. Roth
Keywords: Markets; Restructuring
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  • 09 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 9

Competition for Social Preferences in Simple Extensive Form Games: An Introduction Authors:Eyal Ert, Ido Erev, and Alvin E. Roth Publication:Special Issue on Predicting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2008
  • Case

Kidney Matchmakers

By: Brian J. Hall and Nicole Bennett
In this case we look at the design and development of an unconventional market, where neither money nor traditional "goods" are exchanged. Kidney exchange is an idea pioneered by HBS professor and market designer Alvin Roth and a small group of innovative doctors. This... View Details
Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Disruptive Innovation; Market Design; Market Transactions; Value Creation; Health Industry
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  • 18 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 18

Economists: A Market Design Perspective Authors:Peter A. Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, and John J. Siegfried Publication:Journal of Economic Perspectives... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 13

"ladder of engagement." Publisher's link: http://www.ieseinsight.com/review/articulo.aspx?doc=119397&seccion=6&idioma=2   Working Papers College Admissions as Non-Price Competition: The Case of South Korea By: Avery, Christopher, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

Economics and Ethics (Zeitschrift fur Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik) 8, no. 1 (2007): 29-32 No abstract available. The Art of Designing Markets Author:Alvin E. Roth Periodical:Harvard Business Review... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2011
  • News

Could Japanese hospital doctors offer a remedy to student place dilemma?

  • 27 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

Authors:Christopher Avery, Christine Jolls, Richard A. Posner, and Alvin E. Roth Periodical:University of Chicago Law Review (forthcoming) Abstract In the past, judges have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research

you may not be able to learn anywhere else," says Alvin E. Roth, a professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets (NOM) Unit at HBS and a longtime champion of experimental economics. For example,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants

continues. "There are different proposals on the table. But we will start talking with policymakers about what we can offer." Interestingly, Trichakis is not the only HBS professor playing a significant role in development of organ donor programs. View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Health
  • 16 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

In 2012, two seasoned scholars shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their research on designing markets. Lloyd Shapley had developed theoretical methods to create stable matches in unstable markets. Alvin View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 30 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

death. Professor Alvin Roth has used his expertise in game theory, experimental economics, and market design to create a program that helps match kidney donors with potential recipients. His work also... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology