Marketplaces, markets, and market design

AE Roth - American Economic Review, 2018 - aeaweb.org
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 …

Heterogeneous beliefs and school choice mechanisms

AJ Kapor, CA Neilson, SD Zimmerman - American Economic Review, 2020 - aeaweb.org
This paper studies how welfare outcomes in centralized school choice depend on the
assignment mechanism when participants are not fully informed. Using a survey of school …

Equilibrium allocations under alternative waitlist designs: Evidence from deceased donor kidneys

N Agarwal, I Ashlagi, MA Rees, P Somaini… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Waitlists are often used to ration scarce resources, but the trade‐offs in designing these
mechanisms depend on agents' preferences. We study equilibrium allocations under …

Kidney exchange: An operations perspective

I Ashlagi, AE Roth - Management Science, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
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 …

A theoretical and computational equilibria analysis of a multi-player kidney exchange program

M Carvalho, A Lodi - European Journal of Operational Research, 2023 - Elsevier
A main aim of kidney exchange programs (KEPs) is to maximize the number of transplants
within a pool of incompatible patient-donor pairs by exchanging donors. A KEP involving …

Incentivized kidney exchange

T Sönmez, MU Ünver, MB Yenmez - American Economic Review, 2020 - aeaweb.org
Over the last 15 years, kidney exchange has become a mainstream paradigm to increase
transplants. However, compatible pairs do not participate, and full benefits from exchange …

Fairness models for multi-agent kidney exchange programmes

X Klimentova, A Viana, JP Pedroso, N Santos - Omega, 2021 - Elsevier
Nowadays there are several countries running independent kidney exchange programmes
(KEPs). These programmes allow a patient with kidney failure, having a willing healthy but …

On matching and thickness in heterogeneous dynamic markets

I Ashlagi, M Burq, P Jaillet… - Operations …, 2019 - pubsonline.informs.org
We study dynamic matching in an infinite-horizon stochastic market. Although all agents are
potentially compatible with each other, some are hard to match and others are easy to …

Minimalist market design: A framework for economists with policy aspirations

T Sönmez - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.00307, 2023 - arxiv.org
Earlier in my career, prevalent approaches in the emerging field of market design largely
represented the experiences and perspectives of leaders who were commissioned to design …

Aftermarket frictions and the cost of off-platform options in centralized assignment mechanisms

A Kapor, M Karnani, C Neilson - Journal of Political Economy, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
We study the welfare and human capital impacts of colleges'(non) participation in Chile's
centralized higher-education platform, leveraging administrative data and two policy …