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An International Workshop in Market Design (1st UTMD Conference)

Workshop Information

Dates:

March 24 & 25, 2021 8:00 am(JST)

Organizers:

Venue: Zoom online

Language: English

How to join: Pre-registration is required for Zoom meeting by noon, March 22 (Japan Time). Registration for the workshop has been closed. 

Format: Each talk is 1 hour: the speaker has 45 minutes, which is followed by a 15-minute general audience discussion.

Program

*All times shown below are Japan time.

Day 1

8:00-8:10Opening remarks: Fuhito Kojima, Director, UTMD
8:10-9:10

Information Acquisition in Matching Markets: The Role of Price Discovery (with Jacob Leshno, Irene Lo and Brendan Lucier)
Nicole Immorlica Bio
Principal Researcher at the Microsoft Research New England Lab

9:20-10:20

On the Computational Properties of Obviously Strategy-Proof Mechanisms
Shengwu Li Bio
Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard University

10:30-11:30

A Dynamic Model of Rational ‘Panic Buying’ (with Kazuhiro Teramoto)
Shunya Noda Bio
Assistant Professor, Vancouver School of Economics at University of British Columbia

11:30-Closing remarks: Fuhito Kojima, Director, UTMD

Day 2

8:00-8:05Introduction
8:05-9:05

Redistribution through Markets
Scott Kominers Bio
MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Department of Economics

9:15-10:15Lessons from Market Design for Food Banks
Canice Prendergast Bio
W. Allen Wallis Distinguished Service Professor, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
10:25-11:25Incentives and Efficiency in Constrained Allocation Mechanisms
Joseph Root Bio
Linde postdoctoral fellow and a PIMCO fellow in data science at California Institute of Technology
11:25-Closing remarks: Fuhito Kojima, Director, UTMD

Registration

Registration for the workshop has been closed. Thank you for your interest!

Notes

  • Please join via the link 5 minutes before the session starts.
  • This workshop will be held in English only, no interpreter available.
  • Please show your full name when you participate.
  • Please mute your microphone during speaker’s talk except for Q&A session.
  • No taking pictures, recording audio and video.
  • This workshop will be recorded for the purpose of posting on our report/website. The name and faces of the participants may be displayed in the recording.

Contact info

The University of Tokyo Market Design Center（UTMD）
Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo
E-mail: market-design@e.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Phone: (+81)3-5841-3441