Alvin Roth (left) and Lloyd Shapley were awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Economics. Prices are often the easiest way to create an efficient market–the person willing to pay the most gets the thing ...

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IN MOST countries it is illegal to buy or sell a kidney. If you need a transplant you join a waiting list until a matching organ becomes available. This drives economists nuts. Why not allow willing ...

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LLOYD Shapley, who won the Nobel prize for economics in 2012, died on March 12th at the grand old age of 92. He might not have been too pleased about being memorialised on this economics blog; after ...

MODERN DATING, OLD ALGORITHM. Not having any luck with online dating? Maybe a decades-old algorithm can help. On Wednesday, Hinge — a dating app that claims to be for “people looking for real ...

L'article propose de faire le point sur les jeux d'appariement (initiés par Gale et Shapley [1962]) modélisant les marchés où chaque transaction implique une relation durable avec un partenaire. Dans ...

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Economics is closely associated with the idea of money, but economic life extends beyond what can be or is monetized, as shown by the winners of this year’s economics Nobel Prize, Lloyd Shapley of ...

On March 20th, over 30,000 training physicians received the results of their residency applications.The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), a non profit organization established by medical ...