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  • 2013
  • Book

The Handbook of Market Design

By: Nir Vulkan, Alvin E. Roth and Zvika Neeman
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Vulkan, Nir, Alvin E. Roth and Zvika Neeman, eds. The Handbook of Market Design. Oxford University Press, 2013.
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A Choice Prediction Competition for Market Entry Games: An Introduction

By: Ido Erev, Eyal Ert and Alvin E. Roth
A choice prediction competition is organized that focuses on decisions from experience in market entry games (http://sites.google.com/site/gpredcomp/ and http://www.mdpi.com/si/games/predict-behavior/). The competition is based on two experiments: An estimation... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decision Choices and Conditions; Forecasting and Prediction; Learning; Market Entry and Exit; Game Theory; Behavior; Competition
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Erev, Ido, Eyal Ert, and Alvin E. Roth. "A Choice Prediction Competition for Market Entry Games: An Introduction." Special Issue on Predicting Behavior in Games. Games 1, no. 2 (June 2010): 117–136.
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

College Admissions as Non-Price Competition: The Case of South Korea

By: Christopher Avery, Alvin E. Roth and Soohyung Lee
This paper examines non-price competition among colleges to attract highly qualified students, exploiting the South Korean setting where the national government sets rules governing applications. We identify some basic facts about the behavior of colleges before and... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Higher Education; Policy; Government and Politics; Education Industry; South Korea
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Avery, Christopher, Alvin E. Roth, and Soohyung Lee. "College Admissions as Non-Price Competition: The Case of South Korea." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 20774, December 2014.
  • 2008
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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
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Niederle, Muriel, Alvin E. Roth, and Tayfun Sonmez. "Matching and Market Design." In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. 2nd ed. Edited by Steven Derlauf and Larry Blume. Hampshire, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
  • May 1999
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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
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Erev, Ido, Yoella Bereby-Meyer, and Alvin E. Roth. "The Effect of Adding a Constant to All Payoffs: Experimental Investigation, and a Reinforcement Learning Model with Self-Adjusting Speed of Learning." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 39, no. 1 (May 1999): 111–128.
  • 2013
  • Article

Matching with Couples: Stability and Incentives in Large Markets

By: Fuhito Kojima, Parag A. Pathak and Alvin E. Roth
Accommodating couples has been a long-standing issue in the design of centralized labor market clearinghouses for doctors and psychologists, because couples view pairs of jobs as complements. A stable matching may not exist when couples are present. This article's main... View Details
Keywords: Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Balance and Stability; Jobs and Positions; Family and Family Relationships; Health Care and Treatment; Employment Industry; Health Industry
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Kojima, Fuhito, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth. "Matching with Couples: Stability and Incentives in Large Markets." Quarterly Journal of Economics 128, no. 4 (November 2013): 1585–1632.
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Strategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the New York City High School Match

By: Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak and Alvin E. Roth
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Abdulkadiroglu, Atila, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth. "Strategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the New York City High School Match." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 14864, April 2009.
  • December 2009
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Strategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match

By: Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak and Alvin E. Roth
The design of the New York City (NYC) High School match involved tradeoffs among efficiency, stability, and strategy-proofness that raise new theoretical questions. We analyze a model with indifferences—ties—in school preferences. Simulations with field data and the... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Secondary Education; Marketplace Matching; Performance Efficiency; Mathematical Methods; Motivation and Incentives; Strategy; Balance and Stability
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Abdulkadiroglu, Atila, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth. "Strategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match." American Economic Review 99, no. 5 (December 2009). (AER links to access the Appendix and Downloadable Data Set.)
  • May 2005
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The New York City High School Match

By: Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak and Alvin E. Roth
Keywords: Education
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Abdulkadiroglu, Atila, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth. "The New York City High School Match." American Economic Review 95, no. 2 (May 2005).
  • August 2012
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Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate

By: Judd B. Kessler and Alvin E. Roth
Organ donations from deceased donors (cadavers) provide the majority of transplanted organs in the United States, and one deceased donor can save numerous lives by providing multiple organs. Nevertheless, most Americans are not registered organ donors despite the... View Details
Keywords: Organ Donation; Health; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Decision Making; Resource Allocation; Mathematical Methods; United States
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Kessler, Judd B., and Alvin E. Roth. "Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate." American Economic Review 102, no. 5 (August 2012): 2018–2047.
  • March 23, 2004
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The Nash Equilibrium: A Perspective

By: Charles A. Holt and Alvin E. Roth
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Holt, Charles A., and Alvin E. Roth. "The Nash Equilibrium: A Perspective." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101, no. 12 (March 23, 2004): 3999–4002.
  • Web

Latin America - Global Activities 2020

real-world value. . . . It’s very motivating for us to interact with people who are benefiting from our research. ” Ben Roth Assistant Professor of Business Administration In your association with Fondo... View Details
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Site Credits | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

TV Bibliography From the Director Site Credits Visit & Contact Us Special Collections Baker Library Search Search Search U.S. Steel Resources Site Credits Site Credits Guest Curator Melissa Banta HBS Faculty Benson P. Shapiro Malcolm P. McNair View Details
  • 2002
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Game Theory in the Tradition of Bob Wilson

By: Bengt Holmstrom, Paul Milgrom and Alvin E Roth
Keywords: Game Theory
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Holmstrom, Bengt, Paul Milgrom, and Alvin E Roth, eds. Game Theory in the Tradition of Bob Wilson. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Electronic Press, 2002.
  • 06 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Art of American Advertising

Professor of Marketing, Emeritus, and an adviser on the exhibit. "Many firms competed for the attention and affection of customers. And, whole new kinds of media burst on the scene. This meant that marketers needed to be particularly... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation

By: Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and M. Utku Unver
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: Labor; Marketplace Matching; Quality; Competition; Balance and Stability
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Niederle, Muriel, Alvin E. Roth, and M. Utku Unver. "Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 15006, May 2009.
  • August 2008
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The Gastroenterology Fellowship Match: The First Two Years

By: Muriel Niederle, Deborah D. Proctor and Alvin E. Roth
Keywords: Health; Education
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Niederle, Muriel, Deborah D. Proctor, and Alvin E. Roth. "The Gastroenterology Fellowship Match: The First Two Years." Gastroenterology 135, no. 2 (August 2008): 344–346.
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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
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Niederle, Muriel, Alvin E. Roth, and M. Utku Ünver. "Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation." Games 4, no. 2 (June 2013): 243–282. (Special Issue on Games and Matching Markets.)
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Business Solutions for the Poor (Global and Local) - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Business Solutions for the Poor (Global and Local) Course Number 1588 Baker Foundation Professor Kash Rangan Associate Professor Benjamin N. Roth Associate... View Details
  • 2011
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A Choice Prediction Competition for Social Preferences in Simple Extensive Form Games: An Introduction

By: Eyal Ert, Ido Erev and Alvin E. Roth
Two independent, but related, choice prediction competitions are organized that focus on behavior in simple two-person extensive form games: one focuses on predicting the choices of the first mover and the other on predicting the choices of the second mover. The... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Competition; Motivation and Incentives; Game Theory; Fairness
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Ert, Eyal, Ido Erev, and Alvin E. Roth. "A Choice Prediction Competition for Social Preferences in Simple Extensive Form Games: An Introduction." Special Issue on Predicting Behavior in Games. Games 2, no. 3 (September 2011): 257–276.
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