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July 2016
Matching Markets: Combining Theory and Applications
The WZB is planning an international conference on matching markets. The conference "Matching Markets: Combining Theory and Applications,” starting in the morning of July 14, 2016, and ending on July 15, 2016, will take place at the WZB in Berlin. The conference is organized by Inácio Bó (WZB), Rustamdjan Hakimov (WZB) and Dorothea Kübler (WZB). Find out more information here
Find out more »December 2016
12th Workshop Matching in Practice
The 12th Matching in Practice workshop will take place on Dec 15, 2016 at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. Programme 8:30-9:00 Registration 9:00-10:00 Keynote presentation: Utku Unver (Boston College) Efficient and Incentive Compatible Liver Exchange 10:00-10:30 Coffee break 10:30-12:30 Session 1 First Choice-Maximizing School Choice Mechanisms, by Timo Mennle (University of Zurich) School Choice with Voucher, by Mustafa Afacan (Sabanci University) Iterative Versus Standard Deferred Acceptance: Experimental Evidence, by Rustam Hakimov (WZB Berlin) 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:00 Session 2 Testing different cardinal…
Find out more »April 2017
MATCH-UP 2017
A potentially interesting event for our members: MATCH-UP 2017 is the fourth workshop in an interdisciplinary and international workshop series on matching under preferences. Matching problems with preferences occur in widespread applications such as the assignment of school-leavers to universities, junior doctors to hospitals, students to campus housing, children to schools, kidney transplant patients to donors and so on. The common thread is that individuals have preference lists over the possible outcomes and the task is to find a matching…
Find out more »June 2017
The Tenth Conference on Economic Design
A potentially interesting event for our members: The tenth bi-annual Conference on Economic Design will be held at the University of York, United Kingdom, on three full days June 14-16 (Wed-Fri), 2017. It will be organised by the Economics Department of the University of York and the Centre for Mechanism and Institution Design. The conference welcomes paper submissions from many different fields such as economics, business, finance, politics, computer science, operations research, law, history relevant to mechanism or institution design…
Find out more »August 2017
13th workshop of Matching in Practice
Preliminary program Day 1: August 28, 2017 12:15-1:30 pm Lunch (cafeteria of R42 building, 3rd floor) 1:30 -2:30 pm Keynote lecture: Invariance and matching outcomes Marek Pycia (University of Zurich) 2:30 – 2:45 pm Coffee break 2:45 – 4:15 pm Session 1: Choice and school segregation “Segregation and school enrolment policies” by Thomas Wouters (KU Leuven) “How do restrictive zoning and parental school choices impact social diversity in schools? An empirical evaluation in France” by Béatrice Boutchenik (INSEE) (joint with…
Find out more »March 2018
14th workshop Matching in Practice
Program, Matching in Practice Workshop, Cologne March 16th & 17th, 2018 All talks, lunches and coffee breaks take place in the seminar building of the University of Cologne. The address is Universitätsstr. 37, 50931 Köln. A campus map can be found here. Financial support by the University of Cologne and the Reinhard-Selten Institute is greatly appreciated. Friday, March 16th 12:00 – 1:00pm Lunch 1:00 – 3:00pm: Session 1 https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i09cizpolus2d7x/AAChpNciE3RulM5uAxEmHYX2a?dl=0&preview=Biro.pdf, Matching with Myopic and Farsighted Players, Martin…
Find out more »June 2018
Kidney allocation: Evaluation and perspectives
"Kidney Allocation : Evaluation and Perspectives" June 28, 2018 Campus Jourdan - Paris school of economics - Paris Localisation | Location Campus Jourdan - Paris school of economics - 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris Floor 1 - Room R1-13 Organisateurs | Organizers Julien Combe (UCL, London), Victor Hiller (LEMMA, U Panthéon-Assas) and, Olivier Tercieux (Paris School of Economics).
Find out more »October 2018
15th workshop Matching in Practice
Our 15th MiP workshop will take place in Mannheim (ZEW). Our keynote speaker will be Nikhil Agarwal (MIT). The topic for the policy roundtable is “Kindergarten matching practices in Europe”. Program Friday Oct 12 12:00-13:00 Lobby Registration and Lunch 13:00-13:30 Room Brussels Efficient and (Pretty) Fair Course Assignment with Quotas Stefan Waldherr, Technical University of Munich, DE Co-authors: Martin Bichler (TUM), Alexander Hammerl (TUM), Thayer Morill (NC State) 13:30-14:00 Room Brussels Trading Networks with General Preferences Jan Christoph Schlegel, City…
Find out more »10th Lisbon Meeting in Game Theory and Applications
MiP member Joana Pais is letting us know about a conference of potential interest to our members: The Lisbon Meetings in Game Theory and Applications #10. The Anniversary Edition. October 25-27, 2018 The UECE Lisbon Meetings in Game Theory and Applications are an annual event that brings together leading scholars doing theoretical or applied research in the field of game theory. The first edition of the conference took place in 2009 and throughout the years it has become a reference event…
Find out more »January 2019
Joint International School Choice & Reform and European Association for Education Law and Policy Conference 2019: Connecting Research, Practice, and Policy
MiP member Peter Biro is letting us know about a conference of potential interest to our members: Joint International School Choice & Reform and European Association for Education Law and Policy Conference 2019: Connecting Research, Practice, and Policy Lisbon, January 10-13, 2019 The focus of the conference is on how school choice practice and policy shapes education, including the roles of various stakeholders, such as parents and teachers. Of particular interest are the connections between choice, autonomy, equity, and effective…
Find out more »Lisbon economics and statistics of education
MiP member Joana Pais is letting us know about an interesting event of potential interest to MiP members: Fifth Lisbon Research Workshop on Economics, Statistics and Econometrics of Education LESE, Lisbon Economics and Statistics of Education, will take place at ISEG, Lisbon, on the 24th and 25th of January 2019. This 5th Lisbon Research Workshop on Economics, Statistics, and Econometrics of Education will continue our very successful tradition of getting together researchers, students and education analysts, providing a forum to…
Find out more »May 2019
June 2019
WZB conference on “Designing and evaluating matching markets”
The WZB is planning an international conference on matching markets. The conference "Designing and evaluating matching markets,” starting in the morning of June 27, 2019, and ending on June 28, 2019, will take place at the WZB in Berlin. The conference is organized by Inácio Bó (WZB), Dorothea Kübler (WZB), and Lars Ehlers (University of Montreal). In the past two decades, the fields of matching theory and market design has seen great advances in terms of theoretical but also real-life…
Find out more »July 2019
SING15: 15th European Meeting on Game Theory
The 15th European Meeting on Game Theory will take place in Turku, Finland, on July 2-4, 2019 (great time of the year to be in that part of the world !) Theoretical and applied contributions from all areas of Game Theory are invited. Abstract submissions: January 15– February 28, 2019. Registration starts on April 1, 2019. Early bird registration deadline May15, 2019. More info at https://sing15.fi/
Find out more »October 2019
16th workshop Matching in Practice
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…
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