Join Columbia University's Market Design Initiative and the Program for Economic Research (PER) for a two day workshop.
Thursday, April 29th
9:00 a.m. (EST): “Dynamic Model of Matching”
Pauline Corblet (Science Po), Jeremy Fox (Rice), Alfred Galichon (NYU)
10:00 a.m. (EST): “The Value of Time: Evidence from Auctioned Cab Rides”
Nicholas Buchholz (Princeton), Laura Doval (Columbia), Jakub Kastl (Princeton), Filip Matejka (CERGE), and Tobias Salz (MIT)
11:00 a.m. (EST): Coffee Break
11:15 a.m. (EST): “The Value of Excess Supply in Spatial Matching Markets”
Mohammad Akbarpour (Stanford), Yeganeh Alimohammadi (Stanford), Shengwu Li (Harvard), Amin Saberi (Stanford)
12:15 p.m. (EST): “Optimal Dynamic Allocation: Simplicity through Information Design”
Itai Ashlagi (Stanford), Faidra Monachou (Stanford), and Afshin Nikzad (USC)
1:15 PM (EST): Social Gathering
Friday, April 30th
9:00 a.m. (EST): “Stable Assignments and Search Frictions”
Stephan Lauermann (Bonn), Georg Nöldeke (Basel)
10:00 a.m. (EST): “Optimal Queue Design”
Yeon-Koo Che (Columbia) and Olivier Tercieux (PSE)
11:00 p.m. (EST) Coffee Break
11:15 p.m.(EST): “Matching in Dynamic Imbalanced Markets”
Itai Ashalgi (Stanford), Afshin Nikzad (USC), and Philipp Strack (Yale)
12:15 p.m. (EST): “Asymptotically Optimal Control of a Centralized Dynamic Matching Market with General Utilities”
Jose Blanchet (Stanford), Martin Reiman (Columbia), Virag Shah (Uber), Larry Wein (Stanford), and Linjia Wu (Stanford)
1:15 p.m. (EST): Social Gathering