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16th workshop Matching in Practice
October 4, 2019 - October 5, 2019
The 16th Matching in Practice Workshop is taking place in Gothenburg. The workshop will begin with a lunch (12pm) on the 4th of October finishing early afternoon 5th of October (around 3:30pm), 2019.
The workshop will bring together researchers working on the various aspects of assignment and matching in education, labour and related markets, with a view to actively foster interactions between the various approaches used in this area of research (theory, experiments, analysis of field data, policy/market design) and to share expertise on the actual functioning of these markets in Europe.
Program
Thursday Oct. 3
19.00- Informal Gathering, Meet at Vasaplatsens Brygghus, Vasaplatsen 2
Friday Oct. 4
| 12:00-13:00
Hyllan |
Registration and Lunch |
| 13:00-15:00
Room E44 |
Session 1: School Choice and Welfare Consequences
What Happens when Separate and Unequal School Districts Merge? |
| 15:00-15:30
Hyllan |
Coffee break |
| 15:30-17:30
Room E44 |
Session 2: Market Design Dynamics Unpaired Kidney Exchange: Overcoming Double Coincidence of Wants without Money by Julien Combe (Ecole Polytechnique), joint with Mohammad Akbarpour, Yinghua He, Victor Hiller, Robert Shimerk, Olivier Tercieux Design of Lotteries and Waitlists for Affordable Housing Allocation by Nick Arnosti (Columbia Business School), joint with Peng Shi Matching Problem of Civil Service by Ashutosh Thakur (Stanford University) |
| 17:30-17:45
Hyllan |
Coffee Break |
| 17:45-18:30
Room E44 |
Policy Roundtable (TBA) |
| Dinner |
Saturday Oct 5
| 9:00-10:20
Room E44 |
Session 3: Strategic Incentives in Matching Mechanisms Incentives in School Choice Under Partial Information by Alexander Nesterov (Higher School of Economics, St.Petersburg), joint with Somouaoga Bonkoungou School Choice and Loss Aversion by Jonas von Wangenheim (Freie Universität Berlin), joint with Vincent Meisner |
| 10:20-10:40
Hyllan |
Coffee Break |
| 10.40-12.00
Room E44 |
Session 4: New Issues in Market Design I Using Market Design to Improve College Transfers of Student-Athletes by Robert G. Hammond (University of Alabama), joint with Gregory Dowd, Umut Dur, Utku Ünver Paying to Match: Decentralized Markets with Information Frictions by Ahrash Dianat (University of Essex), joint with Marina Agranov, Larry Samuelson, and Leeat Yariv |
| 12.00-13.00
Hyllan |
Lunch and group photo, |
| 13.00-14.20
Room E44 |
Session 5: New Issues in Market Design II Transparency in Centralised Allocation by Madhav Raghavan (University de Lausanne), joint with Rustamdjan Hakimov The Design of University Entrance Exams and its Implications for Gender Gaps by Andreu Arenas (University of Barcelona & IEB), joint with Caterina Calsamiglia |
| 14.20-14.30
Hyllan |
Coffee Break |
| 14.30-15.30
Room E44 |
Keynote session: How Much Does Matching Matter? Evidence from Chicago Parag Pathak (MIT) |
Practicalities
The conference will take place at the School of Business, Economics and Law (Handelshögskolan), Vasagatan 1, Gothenburg, on the 4th floor of House E (signs directing from Vasagatan). All sessions will be held in room E44. Coffee breaks and lunch will be served in Hyllan, opposite E44.
Scientific Committee
Thilo Klein (ZEW Mannheim), Alex Westkamp (University of Cologne), Li Chen (University of Gothenburg), Joseph Vecci (University of Gothenburg).
Registration
Please register before September 15 at https://monash.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5pB2ejEHYMv5Urz (non speakers; speakers are automatically registered).
Non-speakers are expected to book their own travel and hotels. We have limited funding, but if you need funding to participate as a non-speaker, please contact us at mip2019@economics.gu.se.
Contact
For questions please email mip2019@economics.gu.se.