#marketdesign — Public Fediverse posts

The Economics of Morally Contested Markets
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026/05/11/353-alvin-roth-on-the-economics-of-morally-contested-markets/
Alvin Roth discusses his new book, Moral #Economics, and the world of repugnant transactions. He explores why certain exchanges—like organ donation, sex work, or surrogacy—provoke such strong moral discomfort that society often seeks to ban them entirely.
#MarketDesign can solve life-and-death problems while navigating the complex boundary between efficiency and #ethics.

Polymarket question: "will Jesus Christ return in 2025?" has a 3% probability.

Polymarket wants to provide a public good: correct probability estimates. It fails because how the market is structured and limited.

spoiler: "The Yes people are betting that, later this year, their counterparties (the No betters) will want cash (to bet on other markets), and so will sell out of their No positions at a higher price."

https://ericneyman.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/will-jesus-christ-return-in-an-election-year/

#economics #predictionMarkets #mechanismDesign #MarketDesign #gameTheory

Market design comes to the "new new economic sociology" (and vice versa) #EconTwitter #electricity #marketdesign #performativity #sociology
http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/03/market-design-comes-to-new-new-economic.html

Market Studies #EconTwitter #book #marketdesign #sociology
http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2024/12/market-studies.html

"Reviews of Michel Callon’s Markets in the Making: Rethinking Competition, Goods, and Innovation, In Journal of Cultural Economy #EconTwitter #marketdesign #performativity #sociology

📅 The Virtual Market Design Seminar is back on October 9th! 📅

We have an exciting lineup of speakers: Simon Loertscher (Univ. of Melbourne), Agathe Pernoud (@beckerfriedman), Nikzad Afshin (University of Southern California), and Bumin Yenmez (Washington Univ. in St. Louis).

For more information, visit our dedicated website: 👉 http://virtual-md-seminar.com/

As usual, talks will be recorded and available on our YouTube account: 👉 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwmz3Z8veQWXy3LTePKMFsA/videos 🎥 #MarketDesign

#BehavioralEconomics in Education #MarketDesign: A
Forward-Looking Review
https://alexreesjones.github.io/papers/Behavioral%20Economics%20in%20Education%20Market%20Design.pdf
"The literature studying the design of centralized education markets is an unambiguous success story of economics. …clear that behavior violating the fully rational model is commonplace. This provides a clear point-of-entry for behavioral economists, and in recent years behavioral economists have capitalized on this opportunity."

Affirmative action in India--a market design perspective, by Ashutosh Thakur, Orhan Aygün, Bertan Turhan, and M. Bumin Yenmez #EconTwitter #affirmativeaction #india #marketdesign
http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2023/01/affirmative-action-in-india-market.html

Next talk at the Virtual #MarketDesign Seminar (http://virtual-md-seminar.com/) is tomorrow (Monday): we are pleased to welcome Ellen Muir (Harvard University). She will present "Ramsey Pricing Revisited" w/ Simon Loertscher.

Abstract here: http://virtual-md-seminar.com/abstract/EllenMuirAbstract.pdf

Join us at 7am LA | 10am NY | Noon Santiago | 4pm Paris | 5pm Tel Aviv | 11pm Beijing | Midnight Tokyo.

Next talk at the Virtual #MarketDesign Seminar (http://virtual-md-seminar.com/) is on Monday: we are pleased to welcome Vitor Farinha Luz (University of British Columbia). He will present "Optimal Dynamic Insurance Contracts".

Paper here: http://virtual-md-seminar.com/abstract/PaperVFL.pdf

Join us at 7am LA | 10am NY | Noon Santiago | 4pm Paris | 5pm Tel Aviv | 11pm Beijing | Midnight Tokyo.

Tayfun Sönmez and I have an interesting paper analyzing a recent Supreme Court of India decision regarding the constitutionality of the Economically Weaker Sections reservation category from a market design perspective: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4244354
#MarketDesign

📌 Seminar Announcement 📌

I am co-organizing a virtual seminar on #MarketDesign, bi-weekly on Mondays at 4pm CET, not yet on Mastodon. I am going to spread the words then.

All information are on the seminar website: http://virtual-md-seminar.com. Talks are usually recorded, available on our Youtube account: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwmz3Z8veQWXy3LTePKMFsA/videos

We have a great line-up this semester. Next speakers are Nicole Immorlica (Microsoft Research), Vitor Farinha Luz (University British Columbia) & Ellen Muir (Harvard).

#MarketDesign team the great @muunver has just joined us !