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- 26 May 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation
- Research Summary
Some Potential Effects of a Scramble on a Job Market (with Alvin Roth, Muriel Niederle, and Yuan Chuan Lien)
This project is directly inspired by the recent addition of a scramble to the economists job market.
We attempt to answer under what conditions and for whom adding a scramble is beneficial. View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Marketplace Institutions Related to the Timing of Transactions
Keywords: by Alvin E. Roth
- 19 May 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective
- 24 Mar 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Individual Rationality and Participation in Large Scale, Multi-Hospital Kidney Exchanges
- 10 Sep 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Don’t Take ‘No’ for an Answer: An Experiment with Actual Organ Donor Registrations
Keywords: by Judd B. Kessler & Alvin E. Roth
- 22 May 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Strategy-Proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match
- 09 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
The Need for (Long) Chains in Kidney Exchange
- 27 Jan 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
College Admissions as Non-Price Competition: The Case of South Korea
- 29 Aug 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Unraveling Yields Inefficient Matchings: Evidence from Post-Season College Football Bowls
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal
incumbent advantage. But did it really? As Harvard Business School professor Alvin E. Roth and Texas A&M professor Brit Grosskopf demonstrate in recent research, the devil... View Details
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars
Beware of competitors lying in the grass, says Harvard Business School professor Alvin E. Roth. His study of bidding practices on eBay suggest that those who wait until the last minute to bid—a practice... View Details
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
Unfair. Undignified. Inappropriate, unprofessional, distasteful—and most of all, repugnant. To the wonder and surprise of Alvin E. Roth, a Harvard economist, these harsh words are often hoisted to describe... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
An economic handyman of sorts, Alvin E. Roth fixes broken markets. As a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in the field of market design, the Harvard Business School professor... View Details
- 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
- 22 Jul 2010
- News
Un-Freakonomics
- 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
- 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.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace