Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Midway Market Design Workshop, July 9–11, 2014 University of Chicago Booth School of Business

This has been a good summer for market design conferences, and here's another:

Midway Market Design Workshop


July 9–11, 2014

University of Chicago Booth School of Business
ORGANIZERS
ALI HORTAÇSU, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
ERIC BUDISH, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO BOOTH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
SCOTT DUKE KOMINERS, HARVARD SOCIETY OF FELLOWS
NICOLE IMMORLICA, MICROSOFT RESEARCH
JASON HARTLINE, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
This conference will bring together researchers from economics and computer science to study the design of online and offline markets in a variety of settings. Rigorous modelling of incentives, strategic behavior, and asymmetric information will be the common thread among these researchers. Diverse applications ranging from securities trading to school choice mechanisms will be considered.

Wednesday, July 9

11:00am  12:00pm
Market Design: Topics and Techniques
Microsoft Research
12:00pm  1:00pm
Breakout Session
1:00pm  2:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm  3:00pm
Breakout Session
3:00pm  4:00pm
Empirics of Multi-Unit Auctions
University of Chicago
4:00pm  5:00pm
Breakout Session

Thursday, July 10

9:00am  9:50am
Inverse Optimization for the Recovery of Market Structure from Market Outcomes: An Application to the MISO Electricity Market
Wilfrid Laurier University
9:50am  10:40am
Semi-Robust Estimation and Redesign of Manipulable School Choice Mechanisms: the Case of Seoul
University of Chicago
10:40am  11:10am
Break
11:10am  12:00pm
Pragmatic Algorithmic Game Theory
University of British Columbia
12:00pm  1:00pm
Lunch
1:00pm  1:50pm
Managing Congestion in Dynamic Matching Markets
Stanford University
1:50pm  2:10pm
Break
2:10pm  3:00pm
Strategy-Proofness, Investment Efficiency, and Marginal Returns: An Equivalence
University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business
3:00pm  3:50pm
Double Auction with Interdependent Values: Incentives and Efficiency
Stanford University

Friday, July 11

9:00am  9:50am
Need for Speed? Exchange Latency and Market Quality
VU University Amsterdam
9:50am  10:40pm
Price Constraints, Speed Competition, and Market Quality
College of Business at Illinois
10:40am  11:10am
Break
11:10am  12:00pm
The High-Frequency Trading Arms Race: Frequent Batch Auctions as a Market Design Response
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
12:00pm  1:00pm
Lunch
- See more at: http://bfi.uchicago.edu/events/midway-market-design-workshop#sthash.hkWGY3Te.dpuf

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