Publications

2007
Working Paper

Strategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match

By: Atila Abdulkadiroglu and Alvin E. Roth

September 2006
Article

Learning in Noisy Games: Partial Reinforcement and the Sustainability of Cooperation

By: Yoella Bereby-Meyer and Alvin E. Roth

Keywords: Cooperation; Learning; Games, Gaming, and Gambling

Article

If You Are Offered the Right of First Refusal, Should You Accept? An Investigation of Contract Design

By: Brit Grosskopf and Alvin E. Roth

Keywords: Contracts; Design; Rights

May 2005
Article

The Gastroenterology Fellowship Market: Should There Be a Match?

By: Muriel Niederle and Alvin E. Roth

Keywords: Health; Education; Markets

25 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

Living Kidney Donation Authors:Ruthanne L. Hanto, Alvin E. Roth, M. Utku Ünver, and Francis L. Delmonico Publication:Chap. 8 in Kidney Transplantation: A Guide to the Care of Transplant Recipients, edited... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2011
Working Paper

Individual Rationality and Participation in Large Scale, Multi-Hospital Kidney Exchange

By: Itai Ashlagi and Alvin E. Roth

As multi-hospital kidney exchange clearinghouses have grown, the set of players has grown from patients and surgeons to include hospitals. Hospitals have the option of enrolling only their hard-to-match patient-donor pairs, while conducting easily arranged exchanges... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Resource Allocation; Market Participation; Marketplace Matching; Organizations; Networks; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry

May 2006
Article

Late and Multiple Bidding in Second-Price Internet Auctions: Theory and Evidence Concerning Different Rules for Ending an Auction

By: Axel Ockenfels and Alvin E. Roth

Keywords: Bids and Bidding; Auctions; Internet and the Web; Theory; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

2006
Chapter

Ancient History of Experimental Economics and Social Psychology: Reminiscences and Analysis of a Fruitful Collaboration

By: J. Keith Murnighan and Alvin E. Roth

Keywords: History; Social Psychology; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Economics

May 1999
Article

The Effect of Adding a Constant to All Payoffs: Experimental Investigation, and a Reinforcement Learning Model with Self-Adjusting Speed of Learning

By: Ido Erev, Yoella Bereby-Meyer and Alvin E. Roth

Keywords: Learning; Information

2014
Working Paper

Don't Take 'No' for an Answer: An Experiment with Actual Organ Donor Registrations

By: Judd B. Kessler and Alvin E. Roth

Over 10,000 people in the U.S. die each year while waiting for an organ. Attempts to increase organ transplantation have focused on changing the registration question from an opt-in frame to an active choice frame. We analyze this change in California and show it... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Care and Treatment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Health Industry

March 23, 2004
Article

The Nash Equilibrium: A Perspective

By: Charles A. Holt and Alvin E. Roth

2008
Chapter

Matching and Market Design

By: Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun Sonmez

Matching is the part of economics concerned with who transacts with whom and how. Models of matching, starting with the Gale-Shapley deferred acceptance algorithm, have been particularly useful in studying labour markets and in helping design clearinghouses to fix... View Details

Keywords: Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Outcome or Result; Mathematical Methods

Article

Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation

By: Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and M. Utku Ünver

Markets sometimes unravel, with offers becoming inefficiently early. Often this is attributed to competition arising from an imbalance of demand and supply, typically excess demand for workers. However this presents a puzzle, since unraveling can only occur when firms... View Details

Keywords: Two-side Matching; Unraveling; Experiments; Market Design

June 2008
Article

Current State of Fellowship Hiring: Is a Universal Match Necessary? Is It Possible?

By: Christopher D. Harner, Anil S. Ranawat, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, Peter J. Stern, Shepard R. Hurwitz, William Levine, G. Paul DeRosa and Serena S. Hu

Currently, approximately ninety percent of the six hundred twenty graduating orthopaedic residents are planning on entering a post-graduate fellowship. Since January of 2005, two of the largest fellowship match programs, Sports Medicine and Spine Surgery, were... View Details

Keywords: Medical Specialties; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Employment; Market Timing; Marketplace Matching; Health Industry