Reducing discrimination with reviews in the sharing economy: Evidence from field experiments on Airbnb

R Cui, J Li, DJ Zhang - Management Science, 2020 - pubsonline.informs.org
Recent research has found widespread discrimination by hosts against guests of certain
races in online marketplaces. In this paper, we explore ways to reduce such discrimination …

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 …

Dynamic type matching

M Hu, Y Zhou - Manufacturing & Service Operations …, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
Problem definition: We consider an intermediary's problem of dynamically matching demand
and supply of heterogeneous types in a periodic-review fashion. Specifically, there are two …

On the use of operations research and management in public education systems

K Smilowitz, S Keppler - Pushing the boundaries: Frontiers …, 2020 - pubsonline.informs.org
This tutorial explores a series of questions related to the use of operations research (OR)
and operations management (OM) to improve public education systems. These questions …

Revenue-utility tradeoff in assortment optimization under the multinomial logit model with totally unimodular constraints

M Sumida, G Gallego… - Management …, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
We examine the revenue–utility assortment optimization problem with the goal of finding an
assortment that maximizes a linear combination of the expected revenue of the firm and the …

[PDF][PDF] Refugee resettlement

D Delacrétaz, SD Kominers, A Teytelboym - University of Oxford …, 2016 - t8el.com
Over 100,000 refugees are permanently resettled from refugee camps to hosting countries
every year. Nevertheless, refugee resettlement processes in most countries are ad hoc …

Constrained pseudo-market equilibrium

F Echenique, A Miralles, J Zhang - American Economic Review, 2021 - aeaweb.org
We propose a pseudo-market solution to resource allocation problems subject to
constraints. Our treatment of constraints is general: including bihierarchical constraints due …

A pseudo-market approach to allocation with priorities

Y He, A Miralles, M Pycia, J Yan - American Economic Journal …, 2018 - aeaweb.org
We propose a pseudo-market mechanism for no-monetary-transfer allocation of indivisible
objects based on priorities such as those in school choice. Agents are given token money …

Optimal priority-based allocation mechanisms

P Shi - Management Science, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
This paper develops a tractable methodology for designing an optimal priority system for
assigning agents to heterogeneous items while accounting for agents' choice behavior. The …

Assortment planning for two-sided sequential matching markets

I Ashlagi, AK Krishnaswamy, R Makhijani… - Operations …, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
Two-sided matching platforms provide users with menus of match recommendations. To
maximize the number of realized matches between the two sides (referred to herein as …