The ability to replace organs and tissues on demand could save or improve millions of lives
each year globally and create public health benefits on par with curing cancer. Unmet needs …

Kidney transplantation has become a routine procedure in the treatment of patients with
kidney failure, and requires collaboration of experts from different disciplines, such as …

Marketplaces are often small parts of large markets, and both markets and marketplaces
come in many varieties. Market design seeks to understand what marketplaces must …

The efficient and fair allocation of limited resources is a classical problem in economics and
computer science. In kidney exchanges, a central market maker allocates living kidney …

The complex multi-criteria optimisation problems arising in Kidney Exchange Programmes
have received considerable attention both in practice and in the scientific literature. Whereas …

Most algorithmic matches in fielded kidney exchanges do not result in an actual transplant.
In this paper, we address the problem of cycles and chains in a proposed match failing after …

Market design seeks to translate economic theory and analysis into practical solutions to
real-world problems. By redesigning both the rules that guide market transactions and the …

A kidney exchange is an organized barter market where patients in need of a kidney swap
willing but incompatible donors. Determining an optimal set of exchanges is theoretically …

We interview each other about how game theory and mechanism design evolved into
practical market design. When we learned game theory, games were modeled either in …

Many patients in need of a kidney transplant have a willing but incompatible (or poorly
matched) living donor. Kidney exchange programs arrange exchanges among such patient …