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Fifth Matching in Practice Workshop
May 20, 2013 - May 21, 2013
Final program
Day 1 (Monday May 20, 2013) – Room R42.5.103 (5th floor)
| 12 pm | Lunch (cafetaria, 3rd floor of R42) |
| 1:40 – 2:40 pm | Welcome |
| 1:40 – 2:40 pm | Keynote presentation |
| Eric Budish (Chicago Booth School of Business) | |
| “An Experimental Test of a Complex Market Design: Changing the Course Allocation System at Wharton” (with Judd Kessler) | |
| 2:40 – 3:00 pm | Coffee Break |
| 3:00 – 4:30 pm | Session 1: School Choice in practice |
| Francisco Martinez-Mora (Leicester University) | |
| “School Choice in a Tiebout Model” (with Caterina Calsamiglia andAntonio Miralles) | |
| Kaire Põder (Tallin University) | |
| “Why school choice policy has failed: EU comparative study focusingon Estonia” (with T. Lauri, A. Veski and T. Veskioja) | |
| 4:30 – 5:00 pm | Coffee Break |
| 5:00 – 6:30 pm | Session 2: School choice: Normative considerations |
| Rustam Hakimov (WZB Berlin) | |
| “Equitable top trading cycle mechanisms for school choice and experiments” (with Onur Kesten) | |
| Sofya Kiselgof (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) | |
| “Matchings with interval order preferences: stability and Pareto-efficiency” | |
| 7:30 pm | Dinner |
Day 2 (Tuesday May 21, 2013)
| 9:15 – 10:45 am | Session 3: Information release in matching problems |
| Azar Abizada (Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy) | |
| “Incentives in landing slots problems” (with James Schumer) | |
| Alfredo Salgado-Torres (Universidad Carlos III) | |
| “Incomplete information and costly signaling in college admissions” | |
| 10:45 – 11:15 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 – 12:15 pm | Roundtable “University admissions and student mobility in Europe” |
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Gabrielle Demange (Paris School of Economics) and Irina Ferencz (Academic Cooperation Association) Chair and introduction: Dorothea Kuebler (WZB Berlin) |
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| 12:15- 2 pm | Lunch |
The workshop is followed at 2 pm by the regular Economics Seminar at ECARES where Eric Budish will present a paper on “The high frequency trading arms race: frequent batch auctions as a market design response” (with Peter Cramton and John Shim). Everyone is welcome to attend.
Scientific committee: Peter Biro (Hungarian Academy of Science), Estelle Cantillon (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and Antonio Miralles (Universidad Autonomà de Barcelona)
The detailed program can be also downloaded here.